"Step by step, He had raised their conceptions of Him nearer the unspeakable grandeur of His true nature and work. At …"

"Poor shepherdless sheep! it was His delight, as the Good Shepherd, to lead them to rich pastures; and as they sat and…"

"But now, the sounds of infancy, always nearest the heart, and sure to come to the lips in our deepest emotion, return…"

"At Toulon, Napoleon, looking out of the batteries, drew back a step to let some one take his place. The next moment t…"

"An undivided heart, which worships God alone, and trusts Him as it should, is raised above anxiety for earthly wants."

"Death at the headlands, Hesiod, long ago Gave thee to drink of his unhonied wine: Now Boreas cannot reach thee lying …"

"Now do we say that the nature of the Word became flesh by undergoing change, nor that it was transformed into an enti…"

"Anathema 1. If anyone does not confess that the Emmanuel is in truth God, and that the Holy Virgin is, in consequence…"

"Fragments of the schisms came to mind, passages from the heresies that had divided the Western and Eastern Churches f…"

"Nestorius, a follower of the Antiochian school where he had been trained, argued that in order to preserve the integr…"