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

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

If anyone does not believe that Holy Mary is the Mother of God, he is severed from the Godhead. If anyone should assert that He passed through the Virgin as through a channel, and was not at once divinely and humanly formed in her (divinely, because without the intervention of a man; humanly, because in accordance with the laws of gestation), he is in like manner godless.

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.

Remember God more often than you breathe.

All who have lived according to God still live unto God, though they have departed this life. For this reason, God is called the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, since He is the God, not of the dead, but of the living

Christ is born: glorify Him. Christ comes from heaven: go out to meet Him. Christ descends to earth: let us be raised on high.