[God] is the kind Creator who brought forth nature out of nothing.

Do we ask what profit the little bird hopes for in singing?

Thus God himself was too kind to remain idle and began to play the game of signatures signing his likeness unto the world: therefore I chance to think that all nature and the graceful sky are symbolized in the art of Geometria.

Geometry, which before the origin of things was coeternal with the divine mind and is God himself (for what could there be in God which would not be God himself?), supplied God with patterns for the creation of the world, and passed over to Man along with the image of God; and was not in fact taken in through the eyes.

The sun alone appears, by virtue of his dignity and power, suited for this motive duty (of moving the planets) and worthy to become the home of God himself.

I believe only and alone in the service of Jesus Christ. In him is all refuge and solace.

Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.