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“In a healthy disagreement, courage means being willing to say difficult words. This does not mean saying whatever we feel like. Courage is not venting. On the contrary, true courage will require wisdom, discernment and calculation. We must not wound others with reckless words. But courage will at times require us to speak difficult words.”

For as soon as we have conceived some little taste of divinity by contemplation of the world, we abandon the true God and set up dreams and imaginary things from our own brains in place of Him, and transfer to them Gods righteousness, wisdom, goodness, and power. Moreover we so obscure His daily works, or we overturn them by misjudging them, that the praise and grace which is owed to Him.