As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods. They kill us for their sport.

It was God who dictated what man should believe and do, leaving man the freedom to accept or scoff, to obey or disregard.

Who created all this? Yasha would ask himself. Was it the sun? If so, then perhaps the sun was God. Yasha had read in some holy book that Abraham had worshiped the sun before accepting the existence of Jehovah.

Our love for God is tested by the question of whether we seek Him or His gifts.

God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.

Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.

Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.

There is strife between God s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.

Short arm needs man to reach to Heaven, So ready is Heaven to stoop to him.

If God were not a necessary Being of Himself, He might seem to be made for the use and benefit of men.