Now others possess their livings, and I know not whether they ever think of them.
In their life-time they seemed to be something: and now they are not spoken of.
6. Oh! how quickly doth the glory of the world pass away! Would to God their lives had been answerable to their learning! then would they have studied and read well.
How many perish in the world thro' vain learning, who take little care of the service of God.
And because they chuse rather to be great than to be humble, therefore they are lost in their own imaginations.
He is truly great, who is great in charity.
He is truly great, who is little in his own eyes: and makes no account of the height of honour.
He is truly prudent, who looks upon all earthly things as dung, that he may gain Christ.
And he is very learned indeed, who does the will of God, and renounces his own will.