Pope Gregory VII quotes
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“I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile.”
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“I have loved justice and hated inequity; and therefore I die in exile. [Lat., Dilexi justitiam et odi iniquitatem, propterea morior in exilio.]”
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“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.”
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“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 VIISource : "They Tried to Keep God's Word From the Masses". In response to the request made in 1079 by Vratislaus, duke of Bohemia, seeking permission to use Slavonic in local church services; "Awake!" Magazine, (p. 7), December 2011.
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“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.”
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“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
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“Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.”
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Source : "A. Philip Randolph: A Biographical Portrait". Book by Jervis Anderson, epigraph, p. VII, 1972.
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“Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.”
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“The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.”
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“After every show, I say to Hania [Destelle, a friend], ‘They hated it.’”
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“I like being liked, who doesn’t? But I love being hated.”
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“The composers hated me. The singers detested me. The guitarists were terrified by me.”
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