“God does not take away trials or carry us over them, but strengthens us through them.”

“Life is made of our attitudes. And there are certain things that the gods oblige us to live through. Their reason for this does not matter, and there is no action we can take to make them pass us by.”

“God does watch over us and does notice us, but it usually through someone else that he meets our needs.”

“God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and holy prophets, in order that we who hear them may know them to be speaking not of themselves who utter these priceless words in a state of unconsciousness, but that God himself is the speaker, and that through them he is conversing with us. ”

“God does notice us, and he watches over us. But it is usually through another person that he meets our needs.”

“When trial in life comes over us, we should be thankful, because God purifies us... as a new cloth needs to be washed.”