Some Who Are Far From

The Best Assurance Any One Can Have Of His Interest In God, Is Doubtless The Conformity Of His Soul To Him. When Our Heart Is Once Turned Into A Conformity With The Mind Of God. When We Feel Our Will Conformed To His Will, We Shall Then Presently Perceive A Spirit Of Adoption Within Ourselves, Teaching Us To Say, "abba, Father.

Now All The Knowledge And Wisdom That Is In Creatures, Whether Angels Or Men, Is Nothing Else But A Participation Of That One Eternal, Immutable And Increased Wisdom Of God.

Even The Atheists... Readily Acknowledge It For An Indubitable Truth, That There Must Be Something... Which Was Never Made Or Produced - And Which Therefore Is The Cause Of Those Other Things That Are Made, Something... Whose Existence Must Needs Be Necessary... Wherefore All The Question Now Is, What Is This... Self-existent Thing, Which Is The Cause Of All Other Things That Are Made.

If Intellection And Knowledge Were Mere Passion From Without, Or The Bare Reception Of Extraneous And Adventitious Forms, Then No Reason Could Be Given At All Why A Mirror Or Looking-glass Should Not Understand.

True Zeal Is An Ignis Lambeus, A Soft And Gentle Flame, That Will Not Scorch One's Hand.