“"Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." For inasmuch as He had enjoined things great and marvellous, and had commanded men to be superior to all their passions, and had led them up to Heaven itself, and had enjoined them to strive after the resemblance, not of…”
John Chrysostom, 5th c. — Homily on the Gospel of Matthew 23
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8For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
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6Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.
7Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
— Matthew 7:8 —
9Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?
10Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?