Alienation
The property of the Church cannot be alienated, the priests being but the guardians thereof, and God himself the proprietor. His ministers, therefore, have the power to alienate nothing, save and...
View ArticleGod Knows the Hearts of Men
Thou, Lord, which knowest the hearts of all men. (Acts 1: 24) Thou knowest my down-sitting and mine up-rising; thou understandest my thought afar off. Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art...
View ArticleAlms
A distribution of one’s own possessions, or of somebody else’s to the end of perpetuating the pious leisure of priests, monks, and other lazy folk who find it much more agreeable and convenient to pray...
View ArticleGod Tries Men to Find Out what is in their Hearts
The Lord, your God, proveth you, to know whether ye love the Lord your God, with all your heart and with all your soul. (Deut. 13: 3) The Lord thy God led thee these forty tears in the wilderness, to...
View ArticleDreaded controversy
Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error. — Benjamin Rush, M.D.
View ArticleAltars
God’s tables, upon which he, disgusted with the meats formerly served up to him, now requires that his sacrificers shall serve up to him his own Son, of whom they (the sacrificers) likewise partake and...
View ArticleGod is All-Powerful
Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh; is there anything too hard for me? . . . There is nothing too hard for thee. (Jer. 32: 27,17) With God all things are possible. (Mat. 19: 26)
View ArticleTeach them gently
Our only duty towards those who differ from us is to teach them gently. — Bunderlin
View ArticleAnathema
A species of charitable curse launched by the ministers of a God of peace against all or any that displease them—devoting those to eternal torments for the good of their souls when they cannot get a...
View ArticleGod is Not All-Powerful
And the Lord was with Judah, and he drove out the inhabitants of the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron. (Judges 1: 19)
View ArticleJudge for himself
The philosopher should be a man willing to hear every suggestion, but determined to judge for himself. — Michael Faraday
View ArticleAnchorites
Very holy men, and justly held in esteem and veneration by the Church, who withdrew themselves from all commerce with the world, in the fear of incurring the misfortune of being of any good to it.
View ArticleGod is Unchangeable
With whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. (James 1: 17) For I am the Lord; I change not. (Mai. 3: 6) I, the Lord, have spoken it; it shall come to pass, and I will do it. I will not go...
View ArticleBetter the offense comes than conceal the truth
If an offence come out of the truth, better is it that the offence come than the truth be concealed. — St. Jerome
View ArticleAngels
The messengers of the celestial cabinet whom God dispatches to his favorites here below. Without the angels, God would be obliged to do his own errands. Every Christian enjoys the privilege of having a...
View ArticleGod is Changeable
And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. (Gen. 6: 6) And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil that...
View ArticleA just thinker
I do not fear skepticism for any good soul. A just thinker will allow full sway to his skepticism. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
View ArticleAnger
A deadly sin in a layman, who should only get angry when the Church gets angry, because then it is God himself who gets angry. In truth, the God of all goodness is an angry God, whose beloved children...
View ArticleGod is Just and Impartial
The Lord is upright, . . . and there is no unrighteousness in him. (Ps. 92: 15) Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right? (Gen. 18: 25) A God of truth, and without iniquity, just and right is he....
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