Quotes about Things

“I will ask you one question,” Jesus replied, “and if you answer Me, I will tell you by what authority I am doing these things.

Then John’s disciples informed him about all these things.

When Jesus said this, all His adversaries were humiliated. And the whole crowd rejoiced at all the glorious things He was doing.

But now I am coming to You; and I am saying these things while I am in the world, so that they may have My joy fulfilled within them.

He chose the lowly and despised things of the world, and the things that are not, to nullify the things that are,

There are different ways of working, but the same God works all things in all people.

and to illuminate for everyone the stewardship of this mystery, which for ages past was kept hidden in God, who created all things.

Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. It is no trouble for me to write the same things to you again, and it is a safeguard for you.

But in these last days He has spoken to us by His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, and through whom He made the universe.

So it was necessary for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

I learned that the world has a soul, and that whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of things. I learned that many alchemists realized their destinies, and wound up discovering the Soul of the World, the Philosopher's Stone, and the Elixir of Life. But above all, I learned that these things are all so simple they could be written on the surface of an emerald.

My brethren, the reason why you do not have contentment in the things of the world is not that you do not have enough of them. The reason is that they are not things proportional to that immortal soul of yours that is capable of God Himself.