The fact that the biblical book Hebrews is not an epistle of St Paul, or of any other apostle, is proved by what it says in chapter two.

First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.

Everything is from God himself, both commandment and fulfillment. He alone commands; he alone fulfills.

Reason should be destroyed in all Christians.

There is no gown or garment that worse becomes a woman than when she will be wise.

All our work in the field, in the garden, in the city, in the home, in struggle, in government-to what does it all amount before God except child's play, by means of which God is pleased to give his gifts in the field, at home, and everywhere? These are the masks of our Lord God, behind which he wants to be hidden and to do all things.

A man must completely despair of himself in order to become fit to obtain the grace of Christ.