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The introduction and commentary are pretty bad, but the sermons themselves are beautiful.

"There is one thing in which we poor differ from the rich: freedom from care. We laugh them to scorn when they lie awake at night while we sleep, and when they are constantly tense and worrying we are relaxed and at ease. But the debtor is both poor and full of cares, awake by night, still awake when the day comes, fretting all the time."

"Are you poor? Do not be discouraged. Too much sorrow becomes a source of sin: sadness inundates the mind, helplessness produces bewilderment, and perplexity generates ungrateful thoughts. Place your hope in God."

"Our sheep give birth to many lambs, yet there are more people who go about naked than there are shorn sheep.Our storehouses groan with plenty, yet we have no mercy on those who groan with want.For this reason we are threatened with righteous judgment.This is why God does not open his hand:because we have closed up our hearts towards our brothers and sisters.This is why the fields are arid:because love has dried up."

"Consider now the violent struggle that takes place between the desperation arising from famine and a parent’s fundamental instincts. Starvation on the one side threatens a horrible death, while nature resists, convincing the parents rather to die with their children. Time and again they vacillate, but in the end they succumb, driven by want and cruel necessity."