Pope Shenouda III Quotes

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

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.

Violence is absolutely not our method.

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

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

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