....the light which is God, and which is our inheritance because we are the children of God, insures these things. For the heart which desires, is made thus to desire....

 To those who care only for things, and not for the souls of them, for the truth, the reality of them, the prospect of inheriting light can have nothing attractive, and for their comfort, they may rest assured there is no danger of their being required to take up their inheritance at present. 

 I rejoice that there will be no churches in the high countries, nothing there called religion; for how should there be religion where every throb of the heart says God!

Every one of us is something that the other is not, and therefore knows some thing—it may be without knowing that he knows it—which no one else knows; and that it is everyone’s business, as one of the kingdom of light, and inheritor in it all, to give his portion to the rest; for we are one family, with God at the head and the heart of it, and Jesus Christ, our elder brother, teaching us of the Father, whom he only knows. 

 For every human being is like a facet cut in the great diamond.... Every man, woman, and child is a revealer of God.

If you think of ten thousand things that are good and worth having, what is it that makes them so but the God in them? ......The faces of some flowers lead me back to the heart of God; and, as his child, I hope I feel, in my lowly degree, what he felt when, brooding over them, he said, “They are good;” that is, “They are what I mean.” 

...the phrase is literally “the inheritance of the saints in the light;” and this perhaps makes it the more likely that Paul had in his mind the light as itself the inheritance of the saints—that he held the very substance of the inheritance to be the light.

Dante desires to know how it can be that a distributed good should make the receivers the richer the more of them there are; and Virgil answers: