When a house is being built which is to be made as strong as possible, the building takes place in fine weather and in calm, so that nothing may hinder the structure from acquiring the needed solidity.

When anyone prays, the angels that minister to God and watch over mankind gather round about him and join with him in prayer.

The human heart is no small thing, for it can embrace so much.

When Jesus then is with the multitudes, He is not in His house, for the multitudes are outside of the house, and it is an act which springs from His love of men to leave the house and to go away to those who are not able to come to Him.

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

What each man honours before all else, what before all things he admires and loves, this for him is God.

But God, who is the beginning of all things, is not to be regarded as a composite being, lest perchance there should be found to exist elements prior to the beginning itself, out of which everything is composed, whatever that be which is called composite.