Let it be understood that those who are not found living as He taught are not Christian- even though they profess with the lips the teaching of Christ.

By examining the tongue of the patient, physicians find out the diseases of the body, and philosophers the diseases of the mind.

We who formerly hated and murdered one another now live together and share the same table. We pray for our enemies and try to win those who hate us.

But I and others, who are right-minded Christians on all points, are assured that there will be a resurrection of the dead, and a thousand years in Jerusalem, which will then be built, adorned, and enlarged, [as] the prophets Ezekiel and Isaiah and others declare.

Sound doctrine does not enter into the hard and disobedient heart; but, as if beaten back, enters anew into itself.

If some should accuse us as if we held that people born before the time of Christ were not accountable to God for their actions, we shall anticipate and answer such a difficulty. We have been taught that Christ is the first-begotten of God, and we have declared him to be the Logos of which all mankind partakes. Those, therefore, who lived according to reason (logos) were really Christians, even though they were thought to be atheists, such as, among the Greeks, Socrates, Heraclitus and others like them.

But if so great a power is shown to have followed and to be still following the dispensation of His suffering, how great shall that be which shall follow His glorious advent! For He shall come on the clouds as the Son of man, so Daniel foretold, and His angels shall come with Him.