“You are the image of God; and image is called, as it were, imitage: therefore, if you are truly the image of God, you ought to conform yourself to God in piety. Whence in Ecclesiasticus: "In judging, be merciful to orphans as a father, and as a husband to their mother; and you will be as an obedient son of the Most Hi…”
Bonaventure, 13th c. — Collationes de Septem Donis, Collation 3
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10Be as a father unto the fatherless, and instead of an husband unto their mother: so shalt thou be as the son of the most High, and he shall love thee more than thy mother doth.
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8Let it not grieve thee to bow down thine ear to the poor, and give him a friendly answer with meekness.
9Deliver him that suffereth wrong from the hand of the oppressor; and be not fainthearted when thou sittest in judgment.
— Sirach 4:10 —
11Wisdom exalteth her children, and layeth hold of them that seek her.
12He that loveth her loveth life; and they that seek to her early shall be filled with joy.