Pope Gregory VII famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile.
-- Pope Gregory VII

#Love #Justice #Hated
I have loved justice and hated inequity; and therefore I die in exile. [Lat., Dilexi justitiam et odi iniquitatem, propterea morior in exilio.]
-- Pope Gregory VII

#Justice #Hated #Exile
Who does not know that kings and rulers sprang from men who were ignorant of God, who assumed because of blind greed and intolerable presumption to make themselves masters of other men, their equals, by means of pride, violence, bad faith, murder, and almost every other kind of crime? Surely the devil drove them on.
-- Pope Gregory VII

#Kings #Mean #Pride
That it has pleased God to make Holy Scripture obscure in certain places lest, if it were perfectly clear to all, it might be vulgarized and subjected to disrespect or be so misunderstood by people of limited intelligence as to lead them into error.
-- Pope Gregory VII

#Errors #People #Disrespect
It is the custom of the Roman Church which I unworthily serve with the help of God, to tolerate some things, to turn a blind eye to some, following the spirit of discretion rather than the rigid letter of the law.
-- Pope Gregory VII

#Eye #Law #Church
For if we are bidden to honor carnal fathers and mothers, how much more the spiritual? ... If this virtue of charity has been overlooked, a man will lose any fruit of salvation in any good he may do.
-- Pope Gregory VII

#Christian #Mother #Spiritual

Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.
Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within. Freedom is never granted; it is won. Justice is never given; it is exacted.
Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
I had been told I was on the road to hell, but I had no idea it was just a mile down the road with a dome on it.
Study the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice.
After every show, I say to Hania [Destelle, a friend], â€˜They hated it.â€™
Hatred eats the soul of the hater, not the hated.
I like being liked, who doesnâ€™t? But I love being hated.
The composers hated me. The singers detested me. The guitarists were terrified by me.

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