I Heard Many Discourses Which Were Good

Every Evil Is A Sickness Of Soul, But Virtue Offers The Cause Of Its Health.

Let Sleep Itself Be An Exercise In Piety, For Such As Our Life And Conduct Have Been, So Also Of Necessity Will Be Our Dreams.

What Is There Astonishing In The Death Of A Mortal? But We Are Grieved At His Dying Before His Time. Are We Sure That This Was Not His Time? We Do Not Know How To Pick And Choose What Is Good For Our Souls, Or How To Fix The Limits Of The Life Of Man.

If Men Are In A State In Which They Find It Hard To Be Weaned From Their Own Ways And Choose Rather To Serve The Pleasures Of The Flesh Than To Serve The Lord, And Refuse To Accept The Gospel Life, There Is No Common Ground Between Me And Them.

To Whom Does Our God Say, 'in Our Image' (gen. 1:26), To Whom If It Is Not To Him Who Is 'the Brightness Of His Glory And The Express Image Of His Person' (heb. 1:3), 'the Image Of The Invisible God' (col. 1:15)? It Is Then To His Living Image, To Him Who Has Said 'i And My Father Are One' (jn. 10:30), 'he Who Has Seen Me Has Seen The Father' (jn. 14:9), That God Says, 'let Us Make Man In Our Image'.