Is it any pleasure to the Almighty if you are righteous, or is it gain to him if you make your ways blameless? Is it for your piet...y that he reproves you, and enters into judgment with you?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Have a sense of piety ever on your mind, and be ever mindful that this is subject to no change, but will last you as long as life ...and support you in death. Elevate your soul by prayer and by contemplation without mystical enthusiasm.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
His whole works are a heap of mis-shapen errors, and absurd paradoxes, vented with the confidence of a juggler, the brags of a mou...ntebank, and the authority of some Pythagoras, or third Cato, lately dropped down from heaven. Thus we have seen how the obbian principles do destroy the existence, the simplicity, the ubiquity, the eternity, and infiniteness of God, the doctrine of the Blessed Trinity, the hypostatical union, the kingly, sacerdotal, and prophetical office of Christ, the being and operation of the Holy Ghost, heaven, hell, angels, devils, the immortality of the soul, the Catholic and all national churches; the holy Scriptures, holy orders, the holy sacrament, the whole frame of religion, and the worship of God; the laws of nature, the reality of goodness, justice, piety, honesty, conscience, and all that is sacred.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O! I must tell you that I have fallen in love with a gentleman whom I have lately come acquainted with: he is about 60 or 70--has ...the misfortune to be humpbacked, crooked legged, and rather deformed in his face.--But, in sober sadness, I am delighted with the Dean of Coleraine, whose picture this is, and which I have very lately read. The piety, the zeal, the humanity, goodness and humility of this charming old man have won my heart. Ah! who will not envy him the invaluable treasure!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Pardon, my Mother Church, if I consent That Angels led him when from thee he went,... For even in Error sure no Danger is When joyn'd with so much Piety as His.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »