Gregory VII

Gregory VII may refer to:

  • Pope Gregory VII (c. 1020/1025–1085)
  • Patriarch Gregory VII, Patriarch of Constantinople

Famous quotes by gregory vii:

    “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 (c. 1020–1085)

    “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 (c. 1020–1085)