For what is idolatry if not this: to worship the gifts in place of the Giver himself?
The human heart is a factory of idols...Everyon e of us is, from his mother's womb, expert in inventing idols.
We have been adopted as sons by the Lord with this one condition; that our life expresses Christ, the bond of our adoption. Accordingly, unless we give and devote ourselves to righteousness, we not only revolt from our Creator with wicked perfidy, but we also abjure our Savior Himself.
Prayers will never reach God unless they are founded on free mercy.
Christ is much more powerful to save, than Adam was to destroy.
Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.