To lovers of the truth, nothing can be put before God and hope in Him.

There is nothing unpremeditated, nothing neglected by God. His unsleeping eye beholds all things.

Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights of paradise, so also we would not require the medical art for relief if we were immune to disease, as was the case, by God's gift, at the time of Creation before the Fall.

Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors?

All who call the Holy Ghost a creature we pity, on the ground that, by this utterance, they are falling into the unpardonable sin of blasphemy against Him.

All of us who desire the kingdom of God are, by the Lord's decree, under an equal and rigorous necessity of seeking after the grace of Baptism.