surpasses that of His enemies.

The Jewish exorcists beaten by the devils, saying, "Jesus I know, and Paul I
know; but who are ye"?

Miracles are for doctrine, and not doctrine for miracles.

If the miracles are true, shall we be able to persuade men of all doctrine?
No; for this will not come to pass. Si angelus...[208]

Rule: we must judge of doctrine by miracles; we must judge of miracles by
doctrine. All this is true, but contains no contradiction.

For we must distinguish the times.

How glad you are to know the general rules, thinking thereby to set up
dissension and render all useless! We shall prevent you, my father; truth is
one and constant.

It is impossible, from the duty of God to men, that a man, hiding his evil
teaching, and only showing the good, saying that he conforms to God and the
Church, should do miracles so as to instil insensibly a false and subtle
doctrine. This cannot happen.

And still less that God, who knows the heart should perform miracles in
favour of such a one.

844. The three marks of religion: perpetuity, a good life, miracles. They
destroy perpetuity by their doctrine of probability; a good life by their
morals, miracles by destroying either their truth or the conclusions to be
drawn from them.

If we believe them, the Church will have nothing to do with perpetuity,
holiness, and mi

adhuc,88 because of the power he has by justice. From him who has received
most, will the greatest reckoning be demanded, because of the power he has
by this help.

532. Scripture has provided passages of consolation and of warning for all
conditions.

Nature seems to have done the same thing by her two infinities, natural and
moral; for we shall always have the higher and the lower, the more clever
and the less clever, the most exalted and the meanest, in order to humble
our pride and exalt our humility.

533. Comminutum cor (Saint Paul).[89] This is the Christian character. Alba
has named you, I know you no more (Corneille). That is the inhuman
character. The human character is the opposite.

534. There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who believe themselves
sinners; the rest, sinners, who believe themselves righteous.

535. We owe a great debt to those who point out faults. For they mortify us.
They teach us that we have been despised. They do not prevent our being so
in the future; for we have many other faults for which we may be despised.
They prepare for us the exercise of correction and freedom from fault.

536. Man is so made that by continually telling him he is a fool he

's death, have at the same time a lively idea of Christ
hanging upon the cross, and His blood running from His wounds. Surely
such things will not be wondered at by them who have observed how any
strong affections about temporal matters will excite lively ideas and
pictures of different things in the mind.

The vigorous exercises of the mind, doubtless, more strongly impress it
with imaginary ideas in some than others, which probably may arise from
the difference of constitution, and seems evidently in some, partly to
arise from their peculiar circumstances. When persons have been
exercised with extreme terrors, and there is a sudden change to light
and joy, the imagination seems more susceptive of strong ideas; the
inferior powers, and even the frame of the body, are much more affected,
than when the same persons have as great spiritual light and joy
afterwards; of which it might, perhaps, be easy to give a reason. The
forementioned Reverend Messrs. Lord and Owen-who, I believe, are
esteemed persons of learning and discretion where they are best
known-declared, that they found these impressions on persons'
imaginations quite different things from what fame had before
represented to them, and that they were what none need to wonder at-or
to that purpose.

There have indeed been some few insta