Birth: February 22, 1161 Death: July 16, 1216
If it shall be necessary, through sentences of excommunication against their persons and of interdict against their lands, all backsliding being put ….
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 judged by man, th….
Crucifiers of Christ ought to be held in continual subjection..
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 believe ….
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 should he go against the univ….
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 no one to p….
Not to oppose erroneous doctrine is to approve of it, and not to defend at all true doctrine is to suppress it..
Anyone who attempts to construe a personal view of God which conflicts with church dogma must be burned without pity..
Every cleric must obey the Pope, even if he commands what is evil; for no one may judge the Pope..
We believe that the Greeks have been punished through [the Crusades] by the just judgement of God: these Greeks who have striven to rend the Seamless….
The universal Church of the faithful is one outside of which none is saved..
Kill them all, for God knows His own..
So much must I live for others, that almost I am a stranger to myself..
This [Magna Carta] has been forced from the King. It constitutes an insult to the Holy See, a serious weakening of the royal power, a disgrace to the….
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 w….
The mysteries of the faith are not to [be] explained rashly to anyone. Usually in fact, they cannot be understood by everyone but only by those who a….