I have neither permitted, nor shall I permit, the things which have been settled by the holy fathers to be violated by any innovation.
Interpretation
Tradition and established beliefs should be preserved and not changed by new ideas.
Pope Leo I emphasizes the importance of adhering to long-standing traditions and doctrines established by religious leaders. He asserts that innovations or changes that challenge these beliefs are not acceptable, reflecting a view that respects the foundation laid by previous authorities and encourages stability in faith and practice.
In practice
This quote could be used in a speech about the importance of preserving cultural heritage.
The faith of those who live their faith is a serene faith. What you long for will be given you; what you love will be yours for ever. Since it is by giving alms that everything is pure for you, you will also receive that blessing which is promised next by the Lord: the Godhead that no man has been able to see. In the inexpressible joy of this eternal vision, human nature will possess what eye has not seen or ear heard, what man's heart has never conceived.
The Church is a virgin, the bride of one Spouse, Who is Christ, and this Church does not allow herself to be violated by any error; so that, throughout the whole world there may be for us one uncorruptedness of a single chaste communion.
No one, however weak, is denied a share in the victory of the cross. No one is beyond the help of the prayer of Christ.
The devil is always discovering something novel against the truth.
David's Lord was made David's Son, and from the fruit of the promised branch sprang One without fault, the two-fold nature coming together in one Person, that by one and the same conception and birth might spring our Lord Jesus Christ, in Whom was present both true Godhead for the performance of mighty works and true Manhood for the endurance of sufferings.
Teach nothing new, but instill into all men's breasts those things which the Fathers of revered memory have with harmony of statement taught... Preach nothing else than what we received from our forefathers... Accordingly, both in the rule of faith and in the observance of discipline, let the standard of antiquity be maintained throughout.
Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!
Autobiography, if there really is such a thing, is like asking a rabbit to tell us what he looks like hopping through the grasses of the field. How would he know? If we want to hear about the field on the other hand, no one is in a better circumstance to tell us-so long as we keep in mind that we are missing all those things the rabbit was in no position to observe.
Whitney wanted to eradicate the idea that in the case of a language we are dealing with a natural faculty; in fact, social institutions stand opposed to natural institutions.
β¦ and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life.
People don't want other people to get high, because if you get high, you might see the falsity of the fabric of the society we live in.
But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most, our one fellow and brother who most needed a friend yet had not a single one, the one sinner among us all who had the highest and clearest right to every Christian's daily and nightly prayers, for the plain and unassailable reason that his was the first and greatest need, he being among sinners the supremest?
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