[DB 1.137.8] Ale co jest pro slepého nejjasnější ranní světlo a pro hluchého nejsilnější hřmění?! Věru, teprve nyní poznávám – a, jak bylo řečeno snad také my všichni, - že slepý a zároveň hluchý jest tolik jako zcela mrtvý!
[HG 1.137.7] "Now that You have opened within us the ear of our heart, we understand how terribly blind and deaf we still were, that is, on this beautiful morning so that the word of Your boundless fatherly love touched our hearts without being understood and sounded like the word of a stranger whereas You directed it to us with more clarity than the light of the sun. [HG 1.137.8] "But what is the day's brightest morning light to the blind and what the and loudest thunder to the deaf? Truly, only now do I recognize - and hopefully all of us -, that a person who is blind and deaf is as good as quite dead.