When a certain shameless fellow mockingly asked a pious old man what God had done before the creation of the world the latter aptly countered that he had been building hell for the curious.

In forming an estimate of sins, we are often imposed upon by imagining that the more hidden the less heinous they are.

It is evident that man never attains to a true self-knowledge until he has previously contemplated the face of God, and come down after such contemplation to look into himself.

Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance.

A soul, therefore, when deprived of the Word of God, is given up unarmed to the devil for destruction

For what is idolatry if not this: to worship the gifts in place of the Giver himself?

To make intercession for men is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our love for them.