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since announced that
these temptations would arise from people of this kind; so that when we are
well instructed, we see in this rather evidence of the care of God than of
His forgetfulness in regard to us.

890. Tertullian: Nunquam Ecclesia reformabitur.222

891. Heretics, who take advantage of the doctrine of the Jesuits, must be
made to know that it is not that of the Church, and that our divisions do
not separate us from the altar.

892. If in differing we condemned, you would be right. Uniformity without
diversity is useless to others; diversity without uniformity is ruinous for
us. The one is harmful outwardly; the other inwardly.

893. By showing the truth, we cause it to be believed; but by showing the
injustice of ministers, we do not correct it. Our mind is assured by a proof
of falsehood; our purse is not made secure by proof of injustice.

894. Those who love the Church lament to see the corruption of morals; but
laws at least exist. But these corrupt the laws. The model is damaged.

895. Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from
religious conviction.

896. It is in vain that the Church has established these words, anathemas,
heresies, etc. They are used against her.

897. The servant knoweth not what his lord doeth, for the master tells him
only the act and not the intention. And this is why he often obeys
slavishly, and defeats the intention. But Jesus Christ has told us the
object. And you defeat that object.

898. They cannot have perpetuity, and they seek universality; and therefore
they make the whole Church corrupt, that they may be saints.

899. Against those who