The mysteries of the faith are not to [be] explained rashly to anyone. Usually in fact, they cannot … - Pope Innocent III

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But actually time isn't a straight line. It doesn't ave a shape. In all senses of the term, it doesn't have any form. But since we can't picture something without form in our minds, for the sake of convenience we understand it as a straight line. At this point, humans are the only ones who can make that sort of conceptual substitution.

Pope Innocent III

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 are qualified to understand them with informed intelligence. The depth of the divine Scriptures is such that not only the illiterate and uninitiated have difficulty understanding them, but also the educated and the gifted.

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Anyone who attempts to construe a personal view of God which conflicts with church dogma must be burned without pity.

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

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Kill them all, for God knows His own.

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

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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 will not dare to raise their necks, bowed under the yoke of perpetual slavery, against the reverence of the Christian faith.

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