“Nature is the art of God.”

“But in the divine nature Persons three,And in one person the divine and human.”

“All Being within this order, by the laws of its own nature is impelled to find its proper station round its Primal Cause.Thus every nature moves across the tide of the great sea of being to its own port, each with its given instinct as its guide.”

“all things created have an order in themselves, and this begets the form that lets the universe resemble God.”

“It was the hour of morning,when the sun mounts with those starsthat shone with it when God's own lovefirst set in motion those fair things”

“Great fire can follow a small spark: there may be better voices after me to pray to Cyrrha's god for aid - that he may answer.”

“The mind which is created quick to love, is responsive to everything that is pleasing, soon as by pleasure it is awakened into activity. Your apprehensive faculty draws an impression from a real object, and unfolds it within you, so that it makes the mind turn thereto. And if, being turned, it inclines towards it, that inclination is love; that is nature, which through pleasure is bound anew within you.”