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

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.

What good does it do me if Christ was born in Bethlehem once if he is not born again in my heart through faith?

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?

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

You yourself are even another little world and have within you the sun and the moon and also the stars.

He who is anxious to attain a true understanding of holy Scripture, will discover the spiritual truths which are spoken by it to those who are called "spiritual," by comparing the meaning of what is addressed to those of weaker mind with what is announced to such as are of acuter understanding, both meanings being frequently found in the same passage by him who is capable of comprehending it.