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- Both angels and demons are ignorant of the future, yet they make predictions. The angels do so when God reveals the future to them and…
- An angel is an intelligent essence, always in motion. It has free will, is incorporeal, serves God, and has been bestowed with immortality. Only the…
- Water is also one of the four elements, the most beautiful of God's creations. It is both wet and cold, heavy, and with a tendency…
- All we know if an angel is that it is incorporeal, immaterial, and only by comparing it with God-who is incomparable-can we see that it…
- Our Lord humbled without humiliation His lofty station which yet could not be humbled, and condescends to His servants, with a condescension ineffable and incomprehensible.…
- Every man possesses that which is according to the image of God, for the gifts of God are irrevocable (Rom. 11:29). But only a few…
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