"It is not the least of the troubles of an infallible Church that it cannot decently abandon any position once assumed. Having received the false decretals as genuine, and having based upon them its claim to universal temporal supremacy, when it was obliged to abandon the defence of the forgeries it was placed in a shockingly false position. To have endorsed a lie, from the ninth to the eighteenth century, was bad enough, but to give up the fruits of that lie, so industriously turned to profitable account, was more than could be reasonably expected of human nature" (Studies in Church History -1883, Lea).
“I have not written unto because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.” (John 2:21)
"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink" (Politics and the English Language, George Orwell, 1950).
“A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways.” (James 1:8)
"The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent can not be both honest and intelligent” (The Prevention of Literature, George Orwell, 1961).
"Truth is the most unbending and uncompliable, the most necessary, firm, immutable, and adamantine thing in the world" (Ralph J. Cudworth, 1617-88, English Theologian).
“Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” (John 14:6)
"God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please; you can never have both" (Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-82 A.D., Essay, Intellect, first series 1841).
"When one is frightened of the true...then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of" (Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1889-1951 A.D.).
"The Church of Rome has sought to establish a man-made unity instead of a Spirit-inspired one, and in the place of the infallible Word of God, substituted an infallible so-called 'church'. In thus attempting to escape the inevitable ravages of 'doctrines of demons' from without, in dethroning the Word of God, it laid the foundation for a whole new brood of 'doctrines of demons' from within, and became a well-knit and brilliantly organized system of incredible error, a very citadel for the doctrines of demons' " (Biblical Demonology, Merrill Unger, 178).
"The Papacy is no other than the ghost of the deceased Roman empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof" (Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes, 1588-1679, English Philosopher, Part 4, Chapter 47).
"It is an error to believe that the Roman Pontiff can and ought to reconcile himself to, and agree with, progress, liberalism, and contemporary civilization" (Syllabus of Errors, Pope Pius IX, 1792- 1878 A.D.).
"The Church welcomes technological progress and receives it with love, for it is an indubitable fact that technological progress comes from God and, therefore, can and must lead to Him" (Pope Pius XII, 1876-1958).
"Nevertheless, in order to imbue civilization with sound principles and enliven it with the spirit of the gospel, it is no enough to be illumined with the gift of faith and enkindled with the desire of forwarding a good cause. For this end it is necessary to take an active part in the various organizations and influence them from within. And since our present age is one of outstanding scientific and technical progress and excellence, one will not be able to enter these organizations and work effectively from within unless he is scientifically competent, technically capable and skilled in the practice of his own profession" (Pope John XXIII).
(Notice the change of acceptance of progress for the purpose of infiltration)
"Madness in great ones must not unwatched go" (William Shakespeare, 1564-1616).
"[People] need to know which of these churches or communities [Protestant or Catholic] is that of Christ, since He founded only one Church--the only one capable of speaking in His name" (Pope John Paul II).
"From a worldy point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right" (Samuel Butler, 1835-1902 A.D., English Author).
“Forasmuch as ye know that it is by grace ye are saved, not works, but by the will of God through Jesus Christ” (The Epistle of St. Polycarp, Polycarp, 69-156A.D., 95).
"...Dealing with Satan is not a power encounter, it is a truth encounter. When you expose Satan's lie with God's truth, his power is broken" (Victory Over The Darkness, Neil T. Anderson).
"Look through the whole history of countries professing the Romish religion, and you will uniformly find the leaven of this besetting and accursed principle of action --that the end will sanction any means" (Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772-1834).
"Unity without verity [truth] is no better than conspiracy" (The Golden Treasury of Puritan Quotations, Puritan John Trapp, 304).
"Here, the churches seem to shrink away into eroding corners. They seem to have ceased to be essential parts of American life. They no longer give life. It is the huge buildings of commerce and trade which now align the people to attention. These in their massive manner of steel and stone say, 'Come unto me all ye who labor, and we will give you work'" (Sean O'Casey, 1884-1964, an Irish Dramatist).
“The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down” (Robert G. Ingersoll, 1833-99, U.S. lawyer and orator).
“For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men. As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich. They are waxen fat, they shine, yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge. Shall I not visit for these things? saith the Lord: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?” (Jeremiah 5:26-31)
“When that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn” (Henrik Ibsen, 1828-1906, Norwegian Dramatist).
“Therefore whosoever heareth these saying of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock [Jesus]: And the rain descended and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not; for it was founded upon a rock. And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand [traditions of men]: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.” (Matthew 7:24-29)
“Truth being founded upon a Rock, you must boldly dig to see its foundation without fear of destroying the edifice; but falsehood, being laid on the sand, if you examine its foundation you cause it to fall.” (Tillotson)
"Now, a word to Catholics who follow the dictates of their consciences instead of the dictates of the Vatican. Congratulations, you're Protestant' " (National Review, Florence King, Humorist, 11/27/95).
"Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past" (Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell, 1903-1950).
“And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.” (Daniel 7:25)
"Whenever the so-called Counter Reformation, started by the Jesuits, gained hold of the people the vernacular was suppressed and the Bible kept from the laity. So eager were the Jesuits to destroy the authority of the Bible--the paper pope of the Protestants, as they contemptuously called it--that they even did not refrain from criticizing its genuineness and historical value" (The Influence of the Bible, Von Dobschutz, pg 136).
"Double-think means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them...Even in using the word one admits that one is tampering with reality; by a fresh act of double-think one erases this knowledge; and so on indefinitely, with the lie always one leap ahead of the truth. Ultimately, it is by means of double-think that the party has been able-- and may, for all we know, continue to be able for thousands of years--to arrest the course of history...It need hardly be said that the subtlest practitioners of double-think are those who invented double-think and know that it is a vast system of mental cheating" (Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell ).
(A few examples of Catholic double-think is when they say in one breath that Jesus is our only mediator and then they turn around and says Mary is our mediatrix. With one breath, they tell us they do not pray to Mary while praying to Mary. They say there is no Rock but God and then tell us Peter is the Rock. They say Christ's sacrifice was once and for all and then continue to sacrifice Him daily, through their masses. The list goes on and on but you should get the point by now.)
"When I use a word,” Humpty-Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean---neither more nor less." "The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things." "The question is," said Humpty-Dumpty, "which is to be the master--that's all....When I make a word do a lot of work....I always pay extra" (Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll).
“The constantly recurring question must be: What shall we unite with and from what shall we separate? The question of coexistence does not enter here, but the question of union and fellowship does. The wheat grows in the same field as the tares, but shall the two cross-pollinate? The sheep graze but shall they forget their deep moral differences and intermarry?...The Spirit-illuminated church will have none of this” (The Best of A.W. Tozer, 72).
“Separation from evil is the necessary first principle of communion with Him...Separation from evil is His principle of unity” (Biblical Separation, Pickering, 116).
“What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?” (Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell)