So while he made you without you, he doesn't justify you without you.

Who would not shudder if he were given the choice of eternal death or life again as a child ? Who would not choose to die ?

Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

For what is the self-complacent man but a slave to his own self-praise.

It is not earthly riches which make us or our sons happy; for they must either be lost by us in our lifetime, or be possessed when we are dead, by whom we know not, or perhaps by whom we would not.

Moreover, from the time when He said, 'Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven;' and again, 'He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it; ' no one becomes a member of Christ except it be either by baptism in Christ, or death for Christ.