TMI – Too Much Knowledge of Badness
“A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only …
“A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only …
Do not assume that mere Reading will suffice without fervor, Speculation without devotion, Investigation without admiration, Observation without exaltation, Industry …
“Nothing can be rightly known, if God be not known; nor is any study well-managed, nor to any great purpose, if God is not studied. We know little of the creature, till we know it as it stands related to the Creator: single letters, and syllables uncomposed, are no better than nonsense.
He who overlooks Him who is the ‘Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending,’ and sees not Him in all who is the All of all, then does see nothing at all. All creatures, as such, are broken syllables; they signify nothing as separated from God.”