It is Christ “in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge,” not the Bible, save as leading to him.

But to the man who would live throughout the whole divine form of his being, a thousand questions will arise to which the Bible does not even allude. “Leave them,” says the dull disciple. “I cannot,” returns the man. 

Ah Lord! Be thou in all our being; as not in the Sundays of our time alone, so not in the chambers of our hearts alone.

Do you count it a great faith to believe what God has said? It seems to me a little faith, and, if alone, worthy of reproach. To believe what he has not said is faith indeed...

—“In everything,” says St. Paul, “by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God.” For this everything, nothing is too small.