“Yet when the sinner has wholly unbosomed himself before God in this acknowledgment, let him seriously and sincerely reflect, that more sins still remain, and that the secret recesses of his guilt are too deep to be entirely disclosed.”
“[23]The single word _altar_ has to stand for the Greekβωµός and θυσιαστήριον, the former meaning the altar on which a bloody offering is made, the latter the altar on which the sacrifice after the order of Melchisedec is offered.”
“A History of Religion, or the Evidences or the Divinity of the Christian Religion, as furnished by its History from the Creation of the World to our own Times.”
“A lover of Christ knows what this privilege is, he is acquainted with this virtue, he knows what a gain the being in chains for His sake has been to the human race.”
““A serious and able essay on the science and art of the Christian education of children, exemplified in the career of one who gave his life to it.”—_Dublin Review._”
“Again, if a man were to become poor through sloth, or to fall into poverty because of his want of sense, or to engage in perilous and unlawful pursuits, is it not evident once more that no one of these or those like them would be thrust into this want by God?”
“Already, indeed, since the day of his flight, there has been no small change; for when the emperor learnt that he had taken refuge in this place, in the presence of the soldiers who were incited against his crimes and preparing to put him to death, he made a long speech.”
“And He saith to them: It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but you have made it a den of thieves._ John says the same thing, but he says it in the beginning of his gospel, whereas Matthew says it towards the end.”
“And, here, receiving not a royal child of man, but the very only begotten Son of God, tell me, do you not tremble, and renounce the love of all earthly things, and adorn yourself only for that world to come, or have you still your eyes fixed on the earth, do you still love money, and anxiously crave for gold?”
“And we are going to Him in order to escape hell, for the remission of our sins, to deliver ourselves from those overwhelming penalties, for the winning of heaven and the goods which are there.”
“As, however, man cannot know his fellow-man—for _what man has known that which is in man, if not the spirit of man that is in him_?—this cry he raises after the sacrifice is completed, so that no one should approach the spiritual fountain negligently or as if by chance.”
“As I was saying, and now repeat, if Christ had died and not risen again, wonders also should have ceased and been extinguished: now, not only were they not quenched, but they became more evident and more glorious after these things.”
“At least unfold the gates of heaven and look through them, or rather not only the gates of heaven, but of the heaven of heavens, and then you will see what I say.”
“Be in mourning and groaning, give alms, apologise to the man you have insulted, and reconcile him to yourself by these things; purify your tongue in order that you may incite the less the anger of God.”
