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

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

- Pope Innocent Iii

Kill them all, for God knows His own.

- 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

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…

- Pope Innocent Iii