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…

- Pope Innocent Iii

If it shall be necessary, through sentences of excommunication against their persons and of interdict against their lands, all backsliding being put …

- Pope Innocent Iii

So much must I live for others, that almost I am a stranger to myself.

- Pope Innocent Iii

Kill them all, for God knows His own.

- Pope Innocent Iii

Every cleric must obey the Pope, even if he commands what is evil; for no one may judge the Pope.

- Pope Innocent Iii

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…

- Pope Innocent Iii

Not to oppose erroneous doctrine is to approve of it, and not to defend at all true doctrine is to suppress it.

- Pope Innocent Iii

The universal Church of the faithful is one outside of which none is saved.

- Pope Innocent Iii

Crucifiers of Christ ought to be held in continual subjection.

- Pope Innocent Iii