Do Not, As Is Usually The Case,

It Is Right To Submit To A Higher Authority Whenever A Command Of God Would Be Violated.

The Bread Which You Hold Back Belongs To The Hungry; The Coat, Which You Guard In Your Locked Storage-chests, Belongs To The Naked; The Footwear Mouldering In Your Closet Belongs To Those Without Shoes. The Silver That You Keep Hidden In A Safe Place Belongs To The One In Need. Thus, However Many Are Those Whom You Could Have Provided For, So Many Are Those Whom You Wrong.

[every Disappointment Or Misfortune Can Become A Blessing In Disguise, For Which We Should Be Grateful. But Only If The Hidden Blessing Is Anticipated, Expected And Searched For Will It Be Found And Recognised As Such And The Most Made Of It. For Example...] Many A Man Curses The Rain That Falls Upon His Head, And Knows Not That It Brings Abundance To Drive Away Hunger.

What Is The Benefit Of Fasting In Our Body While Filling Our Souls With Innumerable Evils? He Who Does Not Play At Dice, But Spends His Leisure Otherwise, What Nonsense Does He Not Utter? What Absurdities Does He Not Listen To? Leisure Without The Fear Of God Is, For Those Who Do Not Know How To Use Time, The Teacher Of Wickedness.

When Our Lord Says, 'i Have Not Spoken Of Myself' (jn. 12:49), And Again, 'as The Father Said To Me, So I Speak' (jn. 12:50), And 'the Word Which You Hear Is Not Mine, But The Father's Who Sent Me' (jn. 14:24), And In Another Place, 'as The Father Commanded Me, Even So I Do' (jn. 14:31), It Is Not Because He Lacks Deliberate Purpose Or Power Of Initiative, Nor Yet Because He Has To Wait For The Preconcerted Key-note, That He Employs Language Of This Kind. His Object Is To Make It Plain That His Own Will Is Connected In Indissoluble Union With The Father.