Love Is Not To Be Purchased, And

Whosoever You Are Who Introduce New Doctrines, I Beseech You To Spare The Ears Of Romans! Spare That Faith Which Was Commended By The Voice Of An Apostle. Why Should You Attempt To Teach Us, At The End Of Hundreds Of Years, That Which We Never Heard Before? Why Bring Forward What Peter And Paul Did Not Will To Make Known? Until This Day, The World Was Christian Without Your Doctrine. Thus, I Hold As An Old Man Onto That Faith Wherein I Was Regenerated As A Boy.

Either We Must Speak As We Dress, Or Dress As We Speak. Why Do We Profess One Thing And Display Another? The Tongue Talks Of Chastity, But The Whole Body Reveals Impurity.

The Fact Is That My Native Land Is A Prey To Barbarism, That In It Men's Only God Is Their Belly, That They Live Only For The Present, And That The Richer A Man Is The Holier He Is Held To Be.

It Is Worse Still To Be Ignorant Of Your Ignorance.

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.