So neither planter nor waterer counts, but God alone who makes the seed grow.

Do you not know we are to manage angels, let alone mundane issues?

As it is, we are chastened when we are judged by him, so that we may not be condemned along with the world.

At present we only see the baffling reflections in a mirror, but then it will be face to face; at present I am learning bit by bit, but then I shall understand, as all along I have myself been understood.

So let no one disparage him. When he leaves to rejoin me, speed him cordially on his journey, for I am expecting him along with the other brothers.