FOLLY OF PREFERRING CREATURES TO GOD Would you not consider a person foolish and absurd, who should extravagantly love and prize a drop of stagnant water, and yet view the ocean with indifference to your disgust? Or who should constantly grovel in the dust to admire a shining grain of sand, yet neglect to admire the sun which caused it to shine? Of what folly and absurdity, then, are we guilty, when we love the imperfectly admirable qualities of our fellow worms, or admire the solemnity and beauty of the works of nature, and yet exercise no love to him to whom they are indebted for all. Him whose glory gilds the heavens and from whom angels derive everything that they can excite admiration or love.