When you see your brother, you see God.

We say that knowledge is not mere talk, but a certain divine knowledge, that light which is kindled in the soul as a result of obedience to the commandments, and which reveals all that is in a state of becoming, enables man to know himself and teaches him to become possessed of God.

But it is with a different kind of spell that art deludes you ... it leads you to pay religious honor and worship to images and pictures.

All our life is like a day of celebration for us; we are convinced, in fact, that God is always everywhere. We work while singing, we sail while reciting hymns, we accomplish all other occupations of life while praying.

If the Lord counts the natural beauty of the body inferior to that of the soul, what thinks He of spurious beauty, rejecting utterly as He does all falsehood?

The purified righteous man has become a coin of the Lord, and has the impress of his King stamped upon him.

GOD became man so that we in our turn may become God.