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Reading Is Good, Hearing Is Good, Conversation And Meditation Are Good; But Then, They Are Only Good At Times And Occasions, In A Certain Degree, And Must Be Used And Governed With Such Caution As We Eat And Drink And Refresh Ourselves, Or They Will Bring Forth In Us The Fruits Of Intemperance.

Nothing Harms Or Destroys Us But The Wrong Use Of That Liberty Of Choice Which God Has Entrusted To Us.

What Can You Conceive More Silly And Extravagant Than To Suppose A Man Racking His Brains, And Studying Night And Day How To Fly? ... Wearying Himself With Climbing Upon Every Ascent, ... Bruising Himself With Continual Falls, And At Last Breaking His Neck? And All This, From An Imagination That It Would Be Glorious To Have The Eyes Of People Looking Up At Him, And Mighty Happy To Eat, And Drink, And Sleep, At The Top Of The Highest Trees In The Kingdom.

A Revelation Is To Be Received As Coming From God, Not Because Of Its Internal Excellence, Or Because We Judge It To Be Worthy Of God; But Because God Has Declared It To Be His In As Plain And Undeniable A Manner As He Has Declared Creation And Providence To Be His.

Devotion Signifies A Life Given, Or Devoted, To God. He Therefore Is The Devout Man, Who Lives No Longer To His Own Will, Or The Way And Spirit Of The World, But To The Sole Will Of God, Who Considers God In Everything, Who Serves God In Everything, Who Makes All The Parts Of His Common Life, Parts Of Piety, By Doing Everything In The Name Of God, And Under Such Rules As Are Conformable To His Glory.