To trust a stranger without investigation invites troubles so endless that even descendants must endure them. To rust a man who has not been tested and to suspect a man who has proven trustworthy lead alike to endless ills.
God created man incorruptible, and made him in the image of his own nature, but through the devil’s envy, death came into the world.
Likewise the spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but the spirit himself intercedes for us with sighs too deep for words. And he who searches the hearts of men knows the mind of the spirit, because the spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.
Love flows through a union that lives up to mutual responsibility. Love is not self-seeking, it’s not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrong.
For which of you desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it?
While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
