But as the old Confusion of tongues was laudable, when men who were of one language in wickedness and impiety, even as some now venture to be, were building the Tower; for by the confusion of their language the unity of their intention was broken up, and their undertaking destroyed; so much more worthy of praise is the present miraculous one. For being poured from One Spirit upon many men, it brings them again into harmony. And there is a diversity of Gifts, which stands in need of yet another Gift to discern which is the best, where all are praiseworthy.

For God loves to be entreated, He loves to be compelled.

Our teaching may contain nothing impious, nothing diluted.

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.

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

If time came before me, time is not before the Word, whose Begetter is atemporal. When the beginningless Father was there, leaving nothing superior to His divinity, then also was there the Father's Son, having in the Father a timeless beginning, like the sun's great circle of overwhelming clear light.

It is difficult to practice obedience; but it is even more difficult to practice leadership.