Our prayers and fastings are of less avail, unless they are aided by almsgiving.

Be constantly committed to prayer or to reading [Scripture]; by praying, you speak to God, in reading, God speaks to you.

Before all things, the Teacher of Peace and the Master of Unity would not have prayer made singly and individually, as for one who prays only for himself. For we do not say, "My Father, who art in heaven"... Our prayer is public and common; and when we pray, we pray not for one, but for the whole people, because we the whole people are one.

The wretched bodies of the condemned shall simmer and blaze in those living fires.

Custom is often only the antiquity of error.

None of us offers resistance when he is seized, or avenges himself for your unjust violence, although our people are numerous and plentiful...it is not lawful for us to hate, and so we please God more when we render no requital for injury...we repay your hatred with kindness.

May all Christians be found worthy of either the pure white crown of a holy life or the royal red crown of martyrdom.