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beware of the white loaf for it will keep you from worship/ " (Vol. IV, p. 164.)

"Said Jesus (on him be peace), * My food is hunger; all my thoughts are fear of God; my dress is wool; my warming-place in winter is the rays of the sun; my candle is the moon; my steed is my legs; my food is fruit that springs from the ground; I go to bed and have nothing and arise without anything; and yet there is no one richer than I am/ " (Vol. IV, p. 146.)

" Said Jesus (upon him be peace), The world is a bridge; therefore cross over it and do not build on it/" (Vol. Ill, p. 149.)

"Said Jesus (on him be peace), Whosoever seeks the world is like him who drinks water from the salt sea. The more he drinks the more he thirsts/ " (Vol. Ill, p. 149.) This occurs for the second time, but Al-Ghazali loves to repeat his own sayings as well, often in the same book.

" It is related in the gospels that whosoever shall ask for forgiveness of him who praises him, has driven away the devil." (Vol. Ill, p. 127.)

The following quotations or references to the Gospel occur in some of his shorter works. In the "Alchemy of Happiness," there is this reference to the Gospel: " Whosoever sows reaps, whosoever sets out arrives, and whosoever seeks finds." (Cf. Matt. 7: 7.) We have already quoted the words from his epistle, " O Child ": " Verily I have seen in the Gospels, etc." In the same epistle he refers