It Is Worse Still To Be Ignorant

A False Interpretation Of Scripture Causes That The Gospel Of The Lord Becomes The Gospel Of Man, Or, Which Is Worse, Of The Devil.

The Charges We Bring Against Others Often Come Home To Ourselves; We Inveigh Against Faults Which Are As Much Ours As Theirs; And So Our Eloquence Ends By Telling Against Ourselves.

Being Over Seventy Is Like Being Engaged In A War. All Our Friends Are Going Or Gone And We Survive Amongst The Dead And The Dying As On A Battlefield.

Who Would Have Believed That The Daughters Of That Mighty City Would One Day Be Wandering As Servants And Slaves On The Shores Of Egypt And Africa, Or That Bethlehem Would Daily Receive Noble Romans, Distinguished Ladies, Brought Up In Wealth And Now Reduced To Beggary? I Cannot Help Them All, But I Grieve And Weep With Them, And Am Completely Absorbed In The Duties Which Charity Imposes On Me. I Have Put Aside My Commentary On Ezekiel And Almost All Study. For Today We Must Translate The Precepts Of The Scriptures Into Deeds; Instead Of Speaking Saintly Words, We Must Act Them.

Whoever Eats The Lamb Outside This House Is Profane.