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 them in the very goods that we bestow upon them. God alone, Who is generosity itself and the very essence of goodness, can do nothing but good to those who have recourse to Him.

We should always say in our hearts: — We may hope for all things from a father. And we may say again, with Christ: What is a raven? Yet our heavenly Father feeds it.

Will He who feeds the servants forget the sons? Could He Who remembers the animals be insensible to the wants of His children? Then, we may ask for everything: and we are bound to hope for everything, since we ask of a Father.