Even When A Person Suffers Pain In

Divine Providence Is Connected With Divine Intellectual Influence, And The Same Beings Which Are Benefited By The Latter So As To Become Intellectual, And To Comprehend Things Comprehensible To Rational Beings, Are Also Under The Control Of Divine Providence, Which Examines All Their Deeds With A View Of Rewarding Or Punishing Them. ...the Method Of Which Our Mind Is Incapable Of Understanding.

There Are Eight Rungs In Charity. The Highest Is When You Help A Man To Help Himself.

It Is Not Unreasonable To Assume That The Works Of God, Their Existence And Preceding Non-existence, Are The Result Of His Wisdom, But We Are Unable To Understand Many Of The Ways Of His Wisdom In His Works. On This Principle The Whole Law Of Moses Is Based; It Begins With This Principle: "and God Saw All That He Had Made, And Behold, It Was Very Good" (gen. I. 31); And It Ends With This Principle: "the Rock, Perfect Is His Work" (deut. Xxxii. 4). Note It.

Further, There Are Things Of Which The Mind Understands One Part, But Remains Ignorant Of The Other; And When Man Is Able To Comprehend Certain Things, It Does Not Follow That He Must Be Able To Comprehend Everything.

The Philosophers Likewise Assume That In Nature There Is Nothing In Vain, So That Everything That Is Not The Product Of Human Industry Serves A Certain Purpose, Which May Be Known Or Unknown To Us.