Miscellanea

Each of us thinks we have just cause for elevating ourselves and despising all others in comparison to ourselves—our self-love ruins us with such blindness.

Ignorance and obstinacy are in themselves sinful, and no plea of sincerity will exempt them from the danger of being under their influence.

It is, as it were, an innate disease in mankind to seek reputation by blaming others.

Men who are possessed with self-love and with prejudice against others will readily count that a fault in their neighbours which yet is no fault, and will allow that in …

Whoever belittles his neighbor lacks sense, but a man of understanding remains silent.

Our resentment is against the timetable which the sovereign God has assigned us, a schedule based on a plan of which we are usually ignorant. It is this ignorance which …

God is not like men, so as to be wearied out or exhausted by conferring kindness.

If a woman were to spend all day long in church, praying and chanting, her style of life would not be as agreeable to God as if she were a wife who patiently performed …

Surely the first foundation of righteousness is the worship of God.

No man is prepared for chastising a brother till he has succeeded in acquiring a gentle spirit.