Just as someone who goes to meet somebody stands in the road and awaits him until he comes, so he who believes in Christ ought to live in this age as a pilgrim and be situated not at home but in a passageway. For this reason, when the Jews were also about to leave Egypt,Continue reading “Not at home, but in a passageway”
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If He offers nourishment to the birds…
If he offers nourishment to the birds, will he not offer to humankind food to nourish them? If those who do not labor find food, will not people find food, to whom God has given both the wisdom to work and the hope to enjoy it? God made all animals for humankind’s sake, but heContinue reading “If He offers nourishment to the birds…”
Opus Imperfectum on Wealth
Consider, moreover, that he did not say, “Nobody can have God and wealth,” but “no one can be a servant of God and wealth.” It is one thing to have wealth and quite another to serve wealth. If you have wealth and your wealth does not make you haughty or violent, but you give toContinue reading “Opus Imperfectum on Wealth”
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