Scripture brought me to the Gate of Paradise, and the mind stood in wonder as it entered.

They went down to Egypt and provided food when famine reigned; they came to the obstinate sea, and taught it wisdom with a rod; they went out into the hostile desert and adorned it with a pillar; they entered the furnace, fiercely heated, and sprinkled it with their dew; into the pit where they had been thrown an angel entered and taught its wild beasts to fast.

Scripture brought me to the Gate of Paradise, and the mind stood in wonder as it entered.

It is blasphemy if you pray before God while you are full of anger.

Prayer is converse with God, equal honor with the Angels, progress in good things, averting of evils, righting of sinners.

Don't let your eyes look here and there, and don't look on someone elses' beauty, so that the devil will not conquer you with the help of your eyes.

The seed, swollen with moisture, burst asunder its covering of soil and out peers the blade of wheat, full of symbols. So faith, whose bosom is filled with goodly fruits, is a blade of praise.