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The Bread You Store Up Belongs To The Hungry; The Cloak That Lies In Your Chest Belongs To The Naked; The Gold You Have Hidden In The Ground Belongs To The Poor.

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.

Now, If You Notice How The Swan, Putting Its Neck Down Into The Deep Water, Brings Up Food For Itself From Below, Then You Will Discover The Wisdom Of The Creator, In That He Gave It A Neck Longer Than Its Feet For This Reason, That It Might, As If Lowering A Sort Of Fishing Line, Procure The Food Hidden In The Deep Water.

The Love Of God Is Not Taught. No One Has Taught Us To Enjoy The Light Or To Be Attached To Life More Than Anything Else. And No One Has Taught Us To Love The Two People Who Brought Us Into The World And Educated Us. Which Is All The More Reason To Believe That We Did Not Learn To Love God As A Result Of Outside Instruction. In The Very Nature Of Every Human Being Has Been Sown The Seed Of The Ability To Love. You And I Ought To Welcome This Seed, Cultivate It Carefully, Nourish It Attentively And Foster Its Growth By Going To The School Of God's Commandments With Help Of His Grace.

All These Stupendous Objects Are Daily Around Us; But Because They Are Constantly Exposed To Our View, They Never Affect Our Minds, So Natural Is It For Us To Admire New, Rather Than Grand Objects. Therefore The Vast Multitude Of Stars Which Diversify The Beauty Of This Immense Body Does Not Call The People Together; But When Any Change Happens Therein, The Eyes Of All Are Fixed Upon The Heavens.