Pope Innocent III Quotes

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• Kill them all, for God knows His own.
• The universal Church of the faithful is one outside of which none is saved.
• By heart we believe and by mouth confess the one Church, not of heretics but the Holy Roman, Catholic, and Apostolic Church outside which we…
• God forbid that all children, of whom daily so great a multitude die, would perish, but that also for these, the merciful God, who wishes…
• It is necessary to obey a Pope in all things as long as he does not go against the universal customs of the Church, but…
• Every cleric must obey the Pope, even if he commands what is evil; for no one may judge the Pope.
• So much must I live for others, that almost I am a stranger to myself.
• The Pope should not flatter himself about his power nor should he rashly glory in his honor and high estate, because the less he is…
• The Jews' guilt of the crucifixion of Jesus consigned them to perpetual servitude, and, like Cain, they are to be wanderers and fugitives. The Jews…
• Anyone who attempts to construe a personal view of God which conflicts with church dogma must be burned without pity.
• Not to oppose erroneous doctrine is to approve of it, and not to defend at all true doctrine is to suppress it.

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