Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.
There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.
All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors.
There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice.
No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief.
Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent.
Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?
Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.
We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too.
There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God.