“Fruits each in its season, are the cheapest, most elegant and wholesome dessert you can offer your family or friends, at luncheon or tea. Pastry and plum-pudding should be prohibited by law, from the beginning of June until the end of September.” ShouldEndsLawOffersSeasonsFruitTeaOur FamilySeptemberElegantJuneDessertPastriesPuddingPlums Author:Mary Virginia Terhune
“Nothing can ever pass away from the words of Christ, nor can anything be changed in the doctrine which the Catholic Church received from Christ to guard, protect, and preach.” ChristChurchChangedProtectCatholicDoctrineCatholic ChurchPassing Away Author:Pope Pius IX
“The Church must persist in the teaching transmitted to her by Christ.” ChristChurchTeachingCatholicPersist Author:Pope John Paul II
“Our teaching may contain nothing impious, nothing diluted.” MayTeachingCatholic Author:Gregory of Nazianzus
“I cannot sufficiently be astonished that such is the insanity of some men, such the impiety of their blinded understanding, such, finally, their lust after error, that they will not be content with the rule of faith delivered once and for all from antiquity, but must daily seek after something new, and even newer still, and are always longing to add something to religion, or to change it, or to subtract from it!” MenStillsUnderstandingCatholicLongingAddErrorsLustInsanitySomething NewAntiquityBlinded Author:Vincent of Lerins
“This Apostolic Church never turned from the way of truth nor held any kind of error. It is imperative that nothing of the truths which have been defined be lessened, nothing altered, nothing added, but that they be preserved intact in word and meaning. This is the true rule of faith.” WayKindHas BeensChurchCatholicErrorsDefinedImperativesAlteredApostolicApostolic Church Author:Pope Agatho
“Men know everything - all of them - all the time - no matter how stupid or inexperienced or arrogant or ignorant they are.” KnowsMenMatterFunnyStupidIgnorantArrogantInexperience Book:Intercourse Source: Intercourse
“Diabolical error decks itself out with ease in lying colors with some appearance of truth, so that the force of pronouncement is corrupted by a very brief addition or change, and the confession of faith which should have resulted in salvation, by a subtle transition leads to death!” ShouldLyingForceColorShould HaveCatholicSalvationErrorsAppearanceEaseSubtleTransitionConfessionDeckDiabolical Author:Pope Clement XIII
“Avoid the profane novelty of words, St. Paul says (I Timothy 6:20) ... For if novelty is to be avoided, antiquity is to be held tight to; and if novelty is profane, antiquity is sacred.” IfsCatholicSacredAvoidedNoveltyAntiquityProfane Author:Vincent of Lerins