There is on earth among all dangers, no more dangerous thing than a richly endowed and adroid reason, especially if she enters into spiritual matters which concern the soul and God. For it is more possible to teach an ass to read than to blind such a reason and lead it right; for reason must be deluded, blinded, and destroyed.

In a delightful garden, sowing, planting or digging are not hardship but are done with a zeal and a certain pleasure.

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.

The Jews are the most miserable people on earth. They are plagued everywhere, and scattered about all countries, having no certain resting place. They sit as on a wheelbarrow, without a country, people or government... but they are rightly served, for seeing they refused have Christ and his gospel, instead of freedom they must have servitude.

People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

Being by his faith replaced afresh in paradise and created anew, he (the believer)does not need works for his justification, but that he may not be idle, but that he may exercise his own body and preserve it. His works are to be done freely, with the sole object of pleasing God.

Adam and Eve derived the fullness of joy and bliss from their contemplation of all the animal creatures.