Christ's intercession is the continual application of his death to our salvation.
Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?
The world was no doubt made, that it might be a theatre of the divine glory.
Unless we endeavor to do good to our neighbor, through our cruelty we transgress this law
If God were not to test us, there would be no patience.
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.