Stephen prayed for his persecutors, who had not been able even to listen to the Name of Christ, when he said of those very men by whom he was being stoned: "Lord, lay not this sin to their charge" And we see the result of this prayer in the case of the Apostle, for Paul, who kept the garments of those who were stoning Stephen, not long after became an apostle by the grace of God, having before been a persecutor.

The emperor is in the Church, not about the Church.

When in Rome, live as the Romans do. When elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere.

If you do not give the tenth part to God, he will take the nine parts.

True repentance is to cease from sin.

Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum (I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.)

Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God.