Afflictions for God's sake are dearer to Him than any prayer or sacrifice.

The wisdom of the Holy Spirit is much greater than the wisdom of the entire world. Within the wisdom of the Holy Spirit, silence prevails; the wisdom of the world, however, goes astray into idle talk.

If you are truly merciful, then when what is yours is unjustly taken, don't be sad inside, and do not tell of our loss to your neighbor. Let a better loss, inflicted by those who insult you, be absorbed by your mercy.

Someone who bears a grudge while he prays is like a person who sows in the sea and expects to reap a harvest.

As a handful of sand thrown into the ocean, so are the sins of all flesh as compared with the mind of God.

God requires not the doing of the commandments for their own sake, but the correction of the soul, for whose sake He established the commandments.

Someone who has actually tasted truth is not contentious for truth. Someone who is considered by people to be zealous for truth has not yet learned what truth is really like; once he has truly learned it, he will cease from zealousness on its behalf.