Here’s a health to him
Here’s a health to him that would read, Here’s a health to him that would write; There is none ever feared that the truth should be heard But him whom the truth would indict. — Burns
View ArticleAbsolution
The remission of the sins we have committed against God. The priests of the Romish Church grant it to sinners in virtue of a blank from the divinity itself; a most happy invention, well calculated to...
View ArticleGod Dwells in Darkness
The Lord said that he would dwell in the thick darkness. (1 Kings 8: 12) He made darkness his secret place. (Ps. 18: 11) Clouds and darkness are round about him. (Ps. 97: 2)
View ArticleUnlearn what is untrue
The most needful piece of learning for the uses of Life is to unlearn what is untrue. — Antisthenes
View ArticleAbstinence
A most pious practice which consists in depriving ourselves of the benefits of divine Providence, who created all good things to the sole end of preventing his creatures from enjoying them. Thus, it is...
View ArticleGod is Seen and Heard
And I will take away my hand, and thou shalt see my back parts. (Ex. 33: 23) And the Lord spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend. (Ex. 33: 11) And the Lord called unto Adam,...
View ArticleAbsurdities
There can be none such in religion, which is the work of the Word, or the Divine Reason, which, as we all know, has nothing in common with human reason. It is only through want of faith that...
View ArticleGod is Invisible and Cannot be Heard
No man hath seen God at any time. (John 1: 18) Ye have neither heard his voice, at any time nor seen his shape. (John 5: 37) And he said, thou canst not see my face; for there shall no man see me and...
View ArticlePurge all things spurious
There cannot be better service done to Truth than to purge it of all things spurious. — Sir Isaac Newton
View ArticleAbuses
Abuses will here and there creep into the Church in spite of the divine vigilance. The only thing to be done in such cases is to reform such abuse or abuses when they have become too notorious to be...
View ArticleGod is Tired and Rests
For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed. (Ex. 31: 17) I am weary with repenting. (Jer. 15: 6) Thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities....
View ArticleMan’s opinion
It is not so much things that torment man as the opinion he has of things. — Montaigne
View ArticleAdam
He was the first man. God created him a big booby, who, to please his wife, was stupid enough to devour an apple, which his descendants have never since been able to digest.
View ArticleGod is Never Tired and Never Rests
Hast thou never heard that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, never is weary? (Is. 40: 28)
View ArticleGod is Omnipresent, Sees and Knows all Things
The eyes of the Lord are in every place. (Prov. 15: 3) Whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there; if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. If I take...
View ArticleAgnus Dei
Small cakes of wax much revered by Roman Catholics, and blessed by the pope himself, consequently having received from the fountainhead the miraculous power of driving out devils, exorcising...
View ArticleGod is Not Omnipresent, Neither Sees nor Knows all Things
And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower. (Gen. 11: 5) And the Lord said. Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievious, I will go down now and see...
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