Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all. Men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty billows of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, and pass themselves by. Patience is the companion of wisdom. Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently. Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal. God will not suffer man to have the knowledge of things to come; for if he had prescience of his prosperity he would be careless; and understanding of his adversity he would be senseless. We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot. Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature. |