𝔗𝔯𝔦𝔡𝔢𝔫𝔱𝔦𝔫𝔢 𝔖𝔬𝔲𝔩

"Music has the power of producing a certain effect on the moral character of the soul, and if it has the power to do this, it is clear that the young must be directed to music and must be educated in it." ~Aristotle IMPERIVM

"Never can it truly be said that man is justified before God by works, as much by those performed apart from grace, which merely are sins, as by those done in grace, even though these..can never be so good, that we may be justified before God through them." - Cardinal Pole

“True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.” ~Socrates IMPERIVM

“O, drive back confidently the peoples desirous of war, cut in pieces those who harass us, and let all workers of iniquity - those who are minded to seize the inestimable Treasure of the Christian people within Jerusalem, to pollute our holy Mysteries, and to possess themselves of the heirdom of the sanctuary of God - be thrust from the city of the Lord! Let the twofold sword of the faithful fall upon the skulls of their enemies, to destroy everything which vaunts itself against the knowledge of God, which is the Christian faith! - lest the heathen say, “Where is their God?” - St. Bernard of Clairvaux, De Laude Novae Militiae

“He who forgets the good things he had yesterday becomes an old man today.” ~Epicurus IMPERIVM

“When the family shall no longer have a head, and the great foundation for the subordination of children in the mother's example is gone; when the mother shall have found another sphere than her home for her energies; when she shall have exchanged the sweet charities of domestic love and sympathy for the fierce passions of the hustings; when families shall be disrupted at the caprice of either party, and the children scattered as foundlings from their hearthstone, — it requires no wisdom to see that a race of sons will be reared nearer akin to devils than to men. In the hands of such a bastard progeny, without discipline, without homes, without a God, the last remains of social order will speedily perish, and society will be overwhelmed in savage anarchy.” ~R.L. Dabney

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. -Aristotle

All people are under God's care; but he has a particular regard to his church. This is the signet on his hand, as a bracelet upon his arm; this is his garden, which he delights to dress; if he prunes it, it is to purge it; if he digs about his vine and wounds the branches, it is to make it more beautiful with new clusters, and restore it to a fruitful vigour. —Stephen Charnock