The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.

The entire life of a good Christian is in fact an exercise of holy desire. You do not yet see what you long for, but the very act of desiring prepares you, so that when he comes you may see and be utterly satisfied.

To withhold forgiveness is to take poison and expect the unforgiven to die.

Not to give to those in need what is to you superfluous is akin to fraud.

Is any man skillful enough to have fashioned himself?

God is best known in not knowing him.

Temporal punishments are suffered by some in this life only, by some after death, by some both here and hereafter, but all of them before that last and strictest judgment. But not all who suffer temporal punishments after death will come to eternal punishments, which are to follow after that judgment.