What wave is this? This that shoals the ship upon that bar of disbelief? What is this, that snuffs light from its presence?
Return to that which strengthens and to that which binds... "That I may be humble when face to face with you, but brave toward you when absent."
Are not the words of then, so also now? And what of this indescribable gift to which, ascribed to God and not to man, is not now once made live and present? Speak, O Incarnate Word!
We do not boast beyond measure, in or of the works of others that have so labor'd. But in that which increases what has already been given and takes from whom much already has been taken.
And so what foolishness would it be, that search for Truth and that search for Wisdom, if it were one led by darkness to darkness. Rather, it is Light.
What we battle is not according to the flesh; our weapons for "our battle are not of flesh but are enormously powerful." No, not a fortress could stand, nor an army could fight.
What has been written cannot be unwritten, and what has been given cannot be taken back. The Word has already spoken.
No, as He said: "My grace is sufficient for you, for power is made perfect in weakness."
Cf. 2 Corinthians 9-12
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