Spirituality
Pope St. Gregory VII, Sept. 10, 1074: “… the Kingdom of France… In truth, in these times both the loftiness of its honor and the whole aspect of its adornment seem to have fallen asunder, seeing how, with laws neglected and all righteousness trampled underfoot, whatever is foul, cruel, wretched, and insupportable is there both being done with impunity and, license being afforded, is now regarded as custom.”
Doctrine
St. Athanasius, Discourse Against the Arians, Chap. 3, A.D. 356: “Therefore, since all that remains is to say that from the devil came their mania (for of such opinions he alone is sower), proceed we to resist him— for with him is our real conflict, and they are but instruments —that, the Lord aiding us, and the enemy, as he is wont, being overcome with arguments, they may be put to shame, when they see him without resource who sowed this heresy in them, and may learn, though late, that, as being Arians, they are not Christians.”
