The first thing is to clear the ground. —John Rist, Confusion in the West, 22:43

Why ask God to accept something not as good as the TLM?

Counterfeit money is money.

She may still exist in undiminished vigour, when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Pauls. —Macaulay, quoted in Vivienne Morrell, “The ‘New Zealander’ contemplates the ruins of London”

You wouldn’t have to start by believing in God, you should start by being honest. —John Rist, Confusion in the West, Part 3, 22:43

I do want to emphasize that in contrast to other Catholic thinkers in the Middle Ages, like Aquinas for example, Augustine is not a systematic thinker. He is basically a preacher. —Professor John Rist, Confusion in the West, Part Two, 16:20

Possible may not be actual or even probable.

Humanity is a modern invention. —Sydney Smith, quoted in Barzun, From Dawn to Decadence

Little boys for small flues is a common phrase in the cards left at the door by itinerant chimney sweepers. —Sydney Smith, quoted in Barzun, From Dawn to Decadence

Infants

Even if I go to Hell I shall try to get someone into Heaven, mainly by praying.

By using the traditional Byzantine visual theological vocabulary, Rupnik’s art accomplishes the same goal as verbal theological modernism: it uses the same “words” - visual forms - to mean different things. —Hilary White, “Who is Marko Ivan Rupnik, & why did the Bergoglians shelter him?” is as is

Louis Capet was greater on the scaffold than he had been upon the throne. —Hazen, Modern Europe, p. 179

One doesn’t have to be rigid or even a priest to wear a saturno.

Jesus is God.

Eating at Eva’s.

Salmon River Falls

But in my opinion, Polus, the unjust or doer of unjust actions is miserable in any case, – more miserable, however, if he be not punished and does not meet with retribution, and less miserable if he be punished and meets with retribution at the hands of gods and men. —Socrates, The Gorgias

In Manlius, NY, to see the cygnets.

Elisabeth hears Mary’s voice – her unborn child jumps in her womb.

ᴇʟɪᴢᴀʙᴇᴛʜ. My baby in me jumped for joy.

Sc. 4, Luke 1:41 and 42

Google “baby in the womb”.

(Wanted to see if Micro.blog accepted small caps.)