I Reckon Silence More Profitable

Do Not Despise The Fish Because They Are Absolutely Unable To Speak Or To Reason, But Fear Lest You May Be Even More Unreasonable Than They By Resisting The Command Of The Creator. Listen To The Fish, Who Through Their Actions All But Utter This Word: 'we Set Out On This Long Journey For The Perpetuation Of Our Species.

When Our Lord Says, 'i Have Not Spoken Of Myself' (jn. 12:49), And Again, 'as The Father Said To Me, So I Speak' (jn. 12:50), And 'the Word Which You Hear Is Not Mine, But The Father's Who Sent Me' (jn. 14:24), And In Another Place, 'as The Father Commanded Me, Even So I Do' (jn. 14:31), It Is Not Because He Lacks Deliberate Purpose Or Power Of Initiative, Nor Yet Because He Has To Wait For The Preconcerted Key-note, That He Employs Language Of This Kind. His Object Is To Make It Plain That His Own Will Is Connected In Indissoluble Union With The Father.

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.

No One Who Is In This World Will Deny That Evils Exist. What, Then, Do We Say? That Evil Is Not A Living And Animated Substance, But A Condition Of The Soul Which Is Opposed To Virtue And Which Springs Up In The Slothful Because Of Their Falling Away From Good.

The Human Being Is An Animal Who Has Received The Vocation To Become God.