The mere physical man is like the ant crawling on the paper, who observes black lettering and attributes its production to the pen and nothing more.

Whatever the situation may be, in the recollection of death there is reward and merit. For even the man engrossed in the world benefits from it by acquiring an aversion to this world, since it spoils his contentment and the fullness of his pleasure; and everything which spoils for man his pleasures and his appetites is one of the means of deliverance.

Know, O beloved, that man was not created in jest or at random, but marvelously made and for some great end. Although he is not form everlasting, yet he lives for ever; and though his body is mean and earthly, yet his spirit is lofty and divine

It is sometimes said that we drink our religion with our mother's milk.

Do not allow your heart to take pleasure with the praises of people, nor be saddened by their condemnation.

Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual.

People count with self-satisfaction the number of times they have recited the name of God on their prayer beads, but they keep no beads for reckoning the number of idle words they speak.