Prayer that runs its course till the last day of life needs a strong and tranquil soul.

He changed sunset into sunrise.

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.

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?

Those who glory in their looks - not in their hearts - dress to please others.

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.

And Numenius, the Pythagorean philosopher, expressly writes: 'For what is Plato, but Moses speaking in Attic Greek.'