The Purpose And Cause Of The Incarnation

The Beginning Of Wisdom Is Found In Doubting; By Doubting We Come To The Question, And By Seeking We May Come Upon The Truth.

God Considers Not The Action, But The Spirit Of The Action.

Nothing Can Be Believed Unless It Is First Understood; And That For Any One To Preach To Others That Which Either He Has Not Understood Nor They Have Understood Is Absurd.

And Now, My Friend, I Am Going To Expose To You All My Weaknesses. All Men, I Believe, Are Under A Necessity Of Paying Tribute At Some Time Or Other To Love, And It Is Vain To Strive To Avoid It. I Was A Philosopher, Yet This Tyrant Of The Mind Triumphed Over All My Wisdom; His Darts Were Of Greater Force Than All My Reasonings, And With A Sweet Constraint He Led Me Wherever He Pleased.

I Preferred The Weapons Of Dialectic To All The Other Teachings Of Philosophy, And Armed With These, I Chose The Conflicts Of Disputation Rather Than The Trophies Of War.