Quotes about Things

God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.

Is there anything more worthy of our tongues and mouths than to speak of the things of God and Heaven?

For in the multitude of dreams, there are also divers vanities, but fear thou God; that is, take heed unto his Word (Eccl 5:7; Isa 8:20). Here the fearing of God is opposed to our overmuch heeding dreams: and there is implied, that it is for want of the fear of God that men so much heed those things.

The point is very clear: if you are not watching for His coming, you will not be counted "worthy to escape all the things that will come to pass" during the Great Tribulation. If you're not watching for Him, He's not coming for you!

So little knows Any but God alone to value right The good before him but perverts best things To worst abuse or to their meanest use.

Celestial light, shine inward...that I may see and tell of things invisible to mortal sight

It [covetousness] is a sin against God, just as all mortal sins, in as much as man condemns things eternal for the sake of temporal things.

The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked; Who can know it?"50

The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.

The slenderest knowledge that may be obtained of the highest things is more desirable than the most certain knowledge obtained of lesser things.

Now the maximum in any genus is the cause of all in that genus; as fire, which is the maximum heat, is the cause of all hot things. Therefore there must also be something which is to all beings the cause of their being, goodness, and every other perfection; and this we call God.

Therefore, as the divine wisdom is the cause of the distinction of things for the sake of the perfection of the universe, so it is the cause of inequality. For the universe would not be perfect if only one grade of goodness were found in things.