Hence, although the counsels that Jesus Christ, as man, as Author of our faith, gives us in the Gospel are a great deal more in keeping with the weakness of our mind than those which the same Jesus Christ, as eternal wisdom, as interior truth, as intelligible light, inspires in us in the most secret recesses of our reason; although Jesus Christ makes these counsels agreeable through His grace, sensible by His example, and convincing by His miracles, men are so stupid, and so incapable of reflection even upon matters whose knowledge is critically important for them to know that they hardly ever think about them as they should.