Pope Shenouda III's Quotes

Egypt is not a country we live in but a country that lives within us.

Calm can solve all issues.

You don't extinguish fire by adding more fire, you need water.

The world sees in our conduct, in our behaviour, the proof that we are the real children of God.

Debating religious beliefs are a red line, a deep red line.

The Coptic Church respects the law but it does not accept rulings that go against the Bible and our freedom of religion.

Homosexuality is against nature. Sexual expression is permitted only within marriage, between man and woman, male and female. Anything else is an abnormality and is against nature.

What rights are there for homosexuals? The only right is to be led to repentance. To live in such defilement of the body, in such dishonour, in such abomination, while all the time asking for liberties the church cannot grant, is unbelievable.

Civil disobedience is not accepted by religion and the state does not accept it and there are many verses in the Holy Book that talk of following the ruler.

If everyone got a divorce and looked for a second wife, the Coptic family would lose its moral compass.

Violence is absolutely not our method.

We're not opposed to Catholics having pride in their church, but that doesn't mean that every church that doesn't join them isn't a church.

As temples of the Holy Spirit. we should have communion with the Holy Spirit. The work of any believer is not only the work of a human individual, but is actually the work of the Holy Spirit.