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Giovanni Paolo III / Sir John Brannox Quotes

Total quotes: 8
“I have decided not to choose. Not choosing being the only thing at which I truly excel.”
— Giovanni Paolo III / Sir John Brannox, The New Pope, Season 1: Episode 3
Tagged: Paralysis, Indecision
“My grief, like all great sorrows, cannot be expressed in words. The dictionary does not contain the adequate words.”
— Giovanni Paolo III / Sir John Brannox, The New Pope, Season 1: Episode 6
Tagged: Grief, When Words Fail
“Anything that can be upgraded, like an iPhone, ends up in the bin, only to be replaced by a more expensive model. The Bible has endured for a very long time, and its value has changed a little, if at all. Because it can't be upgraded.”
— Giovanni Paolo III / Sir John Brannox, The New Pope, Season 1: Episode 5
Tagged: The Bible, The Old
“Someday we will all come to appreciate the beauty of sacrifice.”
— Giovanni Paolo III / Sir John Brannox, The New Pope, Season 1: Episode 5
Tagged: Sacrifice
“Religion is a narrative story that is told, an incredibly successful story. Seeing that God is the most popular protagonist in history. I would never have been satisfied devoting my life to minor narratives as I found in literature, film, music. Those at best can only be enjoyable pastimes.”
— Giovanni Paolo III / Sir John Brannox, The New Pope, Season 1: Episode 5
Tagged: Religion
“It is essential to distinguish between what is physiological and what is pathological in the body of the Church.”
— Giovanni Paolo III / Sir John Brannox, The New Pope, Season 1: Episode 2
Tagged: Catholic Church, Nature vs. Corruption
“No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No!”
— Giovanni Paolo III / Sir John Brannox, The New Pope, Season 1: Episode 5
Tagged: Abstract Response To Concrete Hatred , My Philosophy
“You will come to me and you will tell me all this suffering in the world. And I will say to you: they are all hysterias of love. Distortions of our ability to love. The problem, brothers, is love. The question, then, is: how are we to love? This is my way: with tenderness, without passion. Passion is the eternal enemy of humility. Christian humility, which is frugal, is just and is necessary. Love is an abstraction, like intelligence, like happiness. Every time our judgment is beclouded by the ardent passions that consume us, we give love a dangerous concreteness, a scandalous concreteness, an illegal concreteness. In short, we are causing pain. To ourselves, and to others. Replace that concrete love with tenderness.”
— Giovanni Paolo III / Sir John Brannox, The New Pope, Season 1: Episode 3
Tagged: Distortions of Love , Love Is An Abstraction
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