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None so blind as those that will not see.

Blushing is the colour of virtue.

Sinners' follies are the just sport of God's infinite wisdom and power; and those attempts of the kingdom of Satan, which in our eyes are formidable, in his are despicable.

Commemoration of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945 Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces. Sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions.

It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.

The better day, the worse deed.

Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart, and therefore is called the staff of Life.

He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel.

I want every peasant to have a chicken in his pot on Sundays.

To fish in troubled waters.

None so deaf as those who will not hear.

They that die by famine die by inches.

It is good news, worthy of all acceptation, and yet not too good to be true.

So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish, that he did not only sigh but roar.

It is not fit the public trusts should be lodged in the hands of any till they are first proved and found fit for the business they are to be entrusted with.

It was a common saying among the Puritans, "Brown bread and the Gospel is good fare."

Shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant would drown.

Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in fine gay colours, that are but skin-deep.

He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel.

Judas had given them the slip.