4. For a certain person, by loving me, entirely learned divine things, and spoke wonders.
He profited more by forsaking all things, than by studying subtleties.
But to some I speak things common, to others things more particular; to some I sweetly appear in signs and figures; to others in great light I reveal mysteries.
The voice of the books is the same, but it teacheth not all men alike; because I within am the teacher of truth, the searcher of hearts, the understander of thoughts, the promoter of actions; distributing to every one as I judge fitting.
Chap. XLIV.
Of not drawing to ourselves exterior things.
1. Son, in many things it behoveth thee to be ignorant and to esteem thyself as one dead upon earth, and as one to whom the whole world is crucified.
Many things also must you pass by with a deaf ear, and think rather of those things that appertain to thy peace.
It is more profitable to turn away thy eyes from such things as displease thee, and to leave to every one his own way of thinking, than to give way to contentious discourses.
If thou standeth well with God, and lookest at his judgment, thou wilt more easily bear to see thyself overcome.