“The law of life, namely to love God and your neighbor, is simple and clear. Every man on attaining reason recognizes it in his heart. Therefore, if it were not for false teachings, all men would adhere to this law, and the Kingdom of Heaven would reign upon earth. But false teachers, at all times and in all places, taught men to acknowledge as God that which was not God, and as God's law that which was not God's law. And men believed in these false teachings and departed from the true law of life and from the fulfilment of His true law, and this made their life harder to bear and more unhappy. Therefore one must not believe any teachings that do not agree with love of God and of your neighbor. It must not be thought that because a faith is ancient, it is therefore true. On the contrary, the longer people live, the more clearly they grasp the true law of life. We are perturbed because we can no longer believe in that in which our fathers used to believe. We must not let this perturb us, but try instead to establish within us such a faith in which we can believe as firmly as our fathers believed in their faith.”
“True faith is to believe in that one law which befits all the people in the world. True faith enters the heart in stillness and solitude only. True faith consists in living always a good life, loving all men, doing unto others as you would have others do unto you. This, indeed, is the true faith. And this is the faith that all truly wise men and men of saintly life have always taught among all nations.”
“The time will come, nay, has already come, when men will worship the Father neither in Gerizim nor yet in Jerusalem, but true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and in the truth, for such are the worshippers whom the Father seeks.” “All God requires of us is good works. Therein is the entire law of God.”
