Ignorance is the Mother not of Devotion, but of Heresy.

Ignorance is the Mother not of Devotion, but of Heresy.

Ah, children, be afraid of going prayerless to bed, lest the Devil be your bedfellow.

You are young and have the world before you; stoop as you go through it, and you will miss many hard bumps.

You may ... make a little recreation of poetry, in the midst of your painful studies. Nevertheless, I cannot but advise you. Withhold thy throat from thirst. Be not so set upon poetry, as to be always poring on the passionate and measured pages. ... let not the Circean cup intoxicate you.

That there is a Devil is a thing doubted by none but such as are under the influence of the Devil. For any to deny the being of a Devil must be from ignorance or profaneness worse than diabolical.

Chrysostom, I remember, mentions a twofold book of God: the book of the creatures, and the book of the scriptures. God, having taught us first of all by his works, did it afterwards, by his Words. We will now for a while read the former of these books; 'twill help us in reading the latter. They will admirably assist one another.