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

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

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.

He took our flesh and our flesh became God, since it is united with God and forms a single entity with him. For the higher perfection dominated, resulting in my becoming God as fully as he became man.

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.

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.

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