If one of you is deficient in wisdom, let him ask wisdom from the God who gives freely to every one without reproaches, and it will be given to him.

Then Passion conceives and gives birth to Sin, and Sin, on reaching maturity, brings forth Death.

Every good thing given us, and every perfect gift, is from above, and comes down to us from the Maker of the Lights in the heavens, who is himself never subject to change or to eclipse.

And one of you were to say to them--"Go, and peace be with you; find warmth and food for yourselves," and yet you were not to give them the necessaries of life, what good would it be to them?

Does a spring give both good and bad water from the same source?

Can a fig tree, my Brothers, bear olives? or a vine bear figs? No, nor can a brackish well give good water.

No; the gift that God gives is for a nobler end; and that is why it is said--'God is opposed to the haughty, but gives help to the humble.'