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Where there is division, there is sin..
He who is anxious to attain a true understanding of holy Scripture, will discover the spiritual truths which are spoken by it to those who are called….
But God, who is the beginning of all things, is not to be regarded as a composite being, lest perchance there should be found to exist elements prior….
The physical voice we use in prayer need not be great nor startling; even should we not lift up any great cry or shout, God will yet hear us..
This also is a part of the teaching of the Church, that there are certain angels of God, and certain good influences, which are His servants in accom….
Then, in the next place, we must know that every being which is endowed with reason, and transgresses its statutes and limitations, is undoubtedly in….
What each man honours before all else, what before all things he admires and loves, this for him is God..
Conscience is the chamber of justice..
Free will is the power of choosing good and evil..
Those who are wise ambassadors of the word have no other object in view than to free as far as they can their hearers from weak opinions, and to endu….
For if the mystery concealed of old is made manifest to the Apostles through the prophetic writings, and if the prophets, being wise men, understood ….
The soul has neither beginning nor end [They] come into this world strengthened by the victories or weakened by the defeats of their previous lives.
Every soul that is born into flesh is soiled by the filth of wickedness and sin. . . . In the Church, baptism is given for the remission of sins, and….
What man of sense will agree with the statement that the first, second and third days, in which the evening and morning were named, were without sun,….
Those who believe the Author of Nature to be also the Author of Scripture must expect to find in Scripture the same sorts of difficulties that they f….
Every soul... comes into the world strengthened by the victories or weakened by the defeats of its' previous life. Its' place in this world as a vess….
As the eye naturally seeks the light and vision, and our body naturally desires food and drink, so our mind is possessed with a becoming and natural ….
The discussion of prayer is so great that it requires the Father to reveal it, His firstborn Word to teach it, and the Spirit to enable us to think a….
The Word of God is like a lamp to guide us..
Seeing there are many who think they hold the opinions of Christ, and yet some of these think differently from their predecessors, yet as the teachin….
This also is a part of the Church's teaching, that the world was made and took its beginning at a certain time, and is to be destroyed on account of ….