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   "To these reasons I will add a third. I have not persuaded today? But I   
   shall persuade, perhaps, tomorrow. Or even if not tomorrow, I may after   
   tomorrow, or even the day following. He who today heard and rejected the   
   word, perhaps will hear and obey tomorrow; he who spurns the word today and   
   tomorrow, perhaps in a few more days will attend to that which is spoken.   
   For even the fisherman often casts his net the whole day in vain; and in   
   the evening, when he is about to depart, captures and takes home the fish   
   that had escaped him all the day long. And if, on account of frequent want   
   of success, we were to live in idleness, and cease from all work, our whole   
   life would be brought to nought, and not only spiritual affairs but also   
   temporal would be ruined. For also the husbandman, if on account of the   
   once, or twice, or oft-repeated inclemency of the season, were to abandon   
   his work, we all should perish by famine. Again, it the mariner, on account   
   of the once, or twice, or oft-recurring storms, were to forsake the sea,   
   the ocean would become impassable, and in that way also our life would be   
   quite marred. Thus, going through all employments, if men should act as you   
   urge and advise us to do, all would utterly fail, and the earth would   
   become uninhabitable. All men, therefore, having this in view, if once, or   
   twice, or if often they fail to gain the object of the labour in which they   
   spend their time, still apply themselves to the work again with   
   undiminished alacrity."   
      
   St. John Chrysostom, On the parable of the rich man and Lazarus.   
      
   "Gird Your sword upon Your thigh, O Mighty One, With Your glory and Your   
   majesty. And in Your majesty ride prosperously because of truth, humility,   
   and righteousness; And Your right hand shall teach You awesome things."   
    Psalm 45:3-4   
      
   Draw nigh unto God and He will draw nigh unto you.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)