Every creature is a glittering, glistening mirror of Divinity.

A person who lacks the verdancy of justice is dry, totally without tender goodness, totally without illuminating virtue.

All the arts serving human desires and needs are derived from the breath that Godsent into the human body.

The earth which sustains humanity must not be injured. It must not be destroyed!

The earth should not be injured. The earth should not be destroyed. As often as the elements, the elements of the world are violated by ill treatment, so God will cleanse them thru the sufferings, thru the hardships of mankind.

Just as a mirror, which reflects all things, is set in its own container, so too the rational soul is placed in the fragile container of the body. In this way, the body is governed in its earthly life by the soul, and the soul contemplates heavenly things through faith.

When one's thoughts are neither frivolous nor flippant, when one's thoughts are neither stiff-necked nor stupid, but rather, are harmonious -- they habitually render physical calm and deep insight.