We Should Not Accept In

[every Disappointment Or Misfortune Can Become A Blessing In Disguise, For Which We Should Be Grateful. But Only If The Hidden Blessing Is Anticipated, Expected And Searched For Will It Be Found And Recognised As Such And The Most Made Of It. For Example...] Many A Man Curses The Rain That Falls Upon His Head, And Knows Not That It Brings Abundance To Drive Away Hunger.

I Reckon Silence More Profitable Than Speech, For? In The Words Of The Preacher, 'the Words Of Wise Men Are Heard In Quiet' (eccles. 9:17).

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.

When Someone Steals Another's Clothes, We Call Them A Thief. Should We Not Give The Same Name To One Who Could Clothe The Naked And Does Not? The Bread In Your Cupboard Belongs To The Hungry; The Coat Unused In Your Closet Belongs To The One Who Needs It; The Shoes Rotting In Your Closet Belong To The One Who Has No Shoes; The Money Which You Hoard Up Belongs To The Poor.

In Truth, To Know Oneself Seems To Be The Hardest Of All Things. Not Only Our Eye, Which Observes External Objects, Does Not Use The Sense Of Sight Upon Itself, But Even Our Mind, Which Contemplates Intently Another's Sin, Is Slow In The Recognition Of Its Own Defects.