But it is with a different kind of spell that art deludes you ... it leads you to pay religious honor and worship to images and pictures.

If in this life there are so many ways for purification and repentance, how much more should there be after death! The purification of souls, when separated from the body, will be easier. We can set no limits to the agency of the Redeemer; to redeem, to rescue, to discipline, is his work, and so will he continue to operate after this life.

It is absolutely impossible at the same time to be a man of understanding and not to be ashamed to gratify the body.

But by no manner of means are women to be allotted to uncover and exhibit any part of their person, lest both fall,-the men by being excited to look, they by drawing on themselves the eyes of the men.

It is far better to be happy than to have your bodies act as graveyards for animals. Accordingly, the apostle [St.] Matthew partook of seeds, nuts and vegetables, without meat.

The purified righteous man has become a coin of the Lord, and has the impress of his King stamped upon him.

When you see your brother, you see God.