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?

Just as God's will is creation and is called 'the world' so His intention is the salvation of men, and it is called 'the Church.'

For, in truth, an image is only dead matter shaped by the craftsman's hand. But we have no sensible image of sensible matter, but an image that is perceived by the mind alone: God, who alone is truly God.

But those who are ready to toil in the most excellent pursuits, will not desist from the search after truth, till they get the demonstration from the Scriptures themselves.

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

When the two shall be one, the outside as the inside, and the male and the female neither male nor female.

The law itself exhibits justice and teaches wisdom by abstinence from sensible images and by calling out to the Maker and Father of the universe.