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

Our true wisdom is to embrace with meek docility, and without reservation, whatever the holy scriptures have delivered.

If it seems more horrible to kill a man in his own house, then in a field,...it ought surely to be deemed more atrocious to destroy a fetus in the womb before it has come to light.

Though Satan instils his poison, and fans the flames of our corrupt desires within us,we are yet not carried by any external force to the commission of sin, but our own flesh entices us, and we willingly yield to its allurements.

Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity.

The one condition for spiritual progress is that we remain sincere and humble.

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.