(102) When you have seen the millstone turning round, Then, prithee, go and see the stream that turns it. When you have seen the dust rising up into the air, You see the kettles of thought boiling over, God said to Job, 'Out of my clemency I have given a grain of patience to every hair of thine.' Look not, then, so much at your own patience; After seeing patience, look to the Giver of patience. How long will you confine your view to the waterwheel? Lift up your head and view also the water."

(4) Do on then fast; let see how thou bearest thee. Seest thou not how He standeth and abideth thee? For shame! Travail fast but awhile, and thou shalt soon be eased of the greatness and of the hardness of this travail. For although it be hard and strait in the beginning, when thou hast no devotion; nevertheless yet after, when thou hast devotion, it shall be made full restful and full light unto thee that before was full hard. And thou shalt have either little travail or none, for then will God work sometimes all by Himself. But not ever, nor yet no long time together, but when Him list and as Him list; and then wilt thou think it merry to let Him alone.

(86) In like manner thou seest, also, how thou art always in Hell among all the Devils, as to the Wrath; if thy Eyes were but open, thou wouldst see wonderful Things, but thou standest between Heaven and Hell, and canst see neither of them, and walkest upon a very narrow Bridge.

(72) For when thou lookest upon any Thing which does not please thee, but is against or contrary to thee, then thou raisest up the Fountain of thy Heart, as when thou takest a Stone, and therewith strikest Fire on a Steel, and so when the Spark catches Fire in the Heart, then the Fire kindles. [raisest up]

(9) And Thou knowest all things before they come to pass, and Thou seest these things and Thou dost suffer them, and Thou dost not say to us what we are to do to them in regard to these.'

(27) For thou seest plainly, how all the Fruits of the Earth, whatsoever it brings forth, must putrefy and rot; also they are a Death.