What is the right time [to discuss theology]? Whenever we are free from the mire and noise without, and our commanding faculty is not confused by illusory, wandering images, leading us, as it were, to mix fine script with ugly scrawling, or sweet-smelling scent with slime. We need actually 'to be still' (Ps. 46:10) in order to know God, and when we receive the opportunity, 'to judge uprightly' (Ps. 75:2) in theology.

It is more important that we should remember God than that we should breathe: indeed, if one may say so, we should do nothing else besides.

God thought and things came to be, in-formed: the divine thought is the complicated womb of all that is. For it's not likely that, like some painter, He conjured up an image from a similar image, having seen beforehand things which His own one mind did not write.

The Godhead is, to speak concisely, undivided there is one mingling of Light, as it were of three suns joined to each other.

Worship the Trinity, which I call the only true devotion and saving doctrine.

These three things God requires of all the Baptized: right faith in the heart, truth on the tongue, temperance in the body.

Let us become like Christ, since Christ became like us. He assumed the worse that He might give us the better; He became poor that we through His poverty might be rich.