For the Divine Being cannot be declared as it exists: but as we who are fettered in the flesh were able to listen, so the prophets spake to us; the Lord savingly accommodating Himself to the weakness of men.

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

It is absolutely impossible at the same time to be a man of understanding and not to be ashamed to gratify the body.

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

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

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.

If you enroll as one of God's people, then heaven is your country and God your lawgiver.