Creative Quotations from Pope Paul III (1468-1549)

Creative Quotations from . . .

Pope Paul III
(1468-1549) born on Feb 01

Italian religious leader. He was the last of the Renaissance popes and the first pope of the Counter-Reformation, 1534-49; gave approval to create Jesuits, 1540.

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God . . . endowed [the human race] with capacity to attain to the inaccessible and invisible Supreme Good and behold it face to face . . .

Nor is it credible that any one should possess so little understanding as to desire the faith and yet be destitute of the most necessary faculty to enable him to receive it.

The enemy of the human race . . . invented a means never before heard of, by which he might hinder the preaching of God's word of Salvation to the people . . .

We . . . exercise on earth the power of our Lord and seek with all our might to bring those sheep of His flock who are outside into the fold committed to our charge . . .

God has given me authority in heaven and on earth, but my writ does not extend to hell. You will just have to put up with it.

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	"Sublimus Dei," May 29, 1537; on slavery in the New World.
R:	"Sublimus Dei," May 29, 1537; on slavery in the New World.
A:	"Sublimus Dei," May 29, 1537; on slavery in the New World.
N:	"Sublimus Dei," May 29, 1537; on slavery in the New World.
K:	Responding to an official who complained because Michelangelo had painted him into the "Last Judgment" as damned and tormented by devils.