When you have tasted the goodness of God, you will esteem God above all earthly things, preferring celestial before sublunary sweetness. All will be counted dirt and dung to Christ, or as some render it, dog’s meat to Christ (Phil 3:8), that is, coarse and contemptible […]
Were phylacteries in use among Christians, I would recommend this Scripture to be bound about your necks, or written upon the table of your hearts. This is a Scripture whereon we may well say Amen to Augustine’s Confessions: “O, the wonderful depth, my God, the wonderful […]
It is true, indeed, that Christ is perfectly and completely applied to the soul in the first act for righteousness. “Justification being a relative change, properly admits no degrees, but is perfected together, and at once, in one only act; though as to its manifestation, sense, […]
We should banish from our minds forever the common but erroneous notion that justice and judgment characterize the God of Israel, while mercy and grace belong to the Lord of the Church. Actually there is in principle no difference between the Old Testament and the New. […]
Let God be the supreme object of our esteem and affections; and whatsoever evils we sustain, will be made light and easy to us. The apostle assures us, “That all things,” even the most afflicting, “work for the good of those that love God” (Rom 8:28). […]