The Bible is a stream of running water, where alike the elephant may swim, and the lamb walk without losing its feet.

The Bible is a stream of running water, where alike the elephant may swim, and the lamb walk without losing its feet.

He who is required by the necessity of his position to speak the highest things is compelled by the same necessity to exemplify the highest things.

What do they not see, who see Him Who sees all things?

Obedience is the only virtue that plants the other virtues in the heart and preserves them after they have been planted.

Whatsoever then you have well in this world, when you recollect to have done any thing good, be very fearful about it, lest the prosperity granted you be your recompense for the same good. And when you behold poor men doing any thing blameably, fear not, seeing that perhaps those whom the remains of the slightest iniquity defiles, the fire of honesty cleanses.

God is called jealous, angered, repentant, merciful, and foreknowing. These simply mean that, because He guards the chastity of every soul, He can, in human fashion, be called jealous, although He is not subject to any mental torment.