- For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.
- He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man's heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.
- I perceived that there is nothing better for them than to be joyful and to do good as long as they live; also that everyone should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil—this is God's gift to man.
But now, O Lord, you are our Father;
we are the clay, and you are our potter;
we are all the work of your hand.