It is in our power to stretch out our arms and, by doing good in our actions, to seize life and set it in our soul.

Although Christ was God, he took flesh; and having been made man, he remained what he was, God.

If all things were made through Him, clearly so must the splendid revelations have been which were made to the fathers and prophets, and became to them the symbols of the sacred mysteries of religion.

You cannot demand military service of Christians any more than you can of priests. We do not go forth as soldiers with the Emperor even if he demands this.

We must believe what is good and true about the prophets, that they were sages, that they did understand what proceeded from their mouths, and that they bore prudence on their lips.

What man of sense will agree with the statement that the first, second and third days, in which the evening and morning were named, were without sun, moon and stars? What man is found such an idiot as to suppose that God planted trees in Paradise, in Eden, Like a Husbandman?

The physical voice we use in prayer need not be great nor startling; even should we not lift up any great cry or shout, God will yet hear us.