“The peace of God is with them whose mind and soul are in harmony, who are free from desire and wrath, who know their own soul.”

“To love God with all our heart, soul, and mind, and our neighbor as ourself.”

“Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone one who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love.”

“Who knows for certain?Who shall here declare it?Whence was it born, whence came creation?The gods are later thanthis world's formation;Who then can know the origins of the world?None knows whence creation arose;And whether he has or has not made it;He who surveys it from the lofty skies.Only he knows-or perhaps he knows not.”

“By the sun and its brightness And [by] the moon when it follows it And [by] the day when it displays it And [by] the night when it covers it And [by] the sky and He who constructed it And [by] the earth and He who spread it And [by] the soul and He who proportioned it And inspired it [with discernment of] its wickedness and its righteousness, He has succeeded who purifies it, And he has failed who instills it [with corruption].”

“My soul doth magnify the Lord,And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Savior.”

“What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?”