Whatever we do or say without prayer always ends up either sinful or harmful and convicts us through the deeds in some mysterious way.

It is better to pray with good will for our neighbor, rather than to denounce him for every sin.

One evil receives strength from another. In the same way, good deeds also sprout one from another, and the one in whom they are found grows larger.

Every sin that is left without repentance is a sin unto death, for which if even a saint shall pray, he shall not be heard.

The sign of sincere love is to forgive wrongs done to us. It was with such love that the Lord loved the world.

Whoever with fear of God corrects and directs a sinner gains virtue for himself, that of opposition to sin. But whoever insults a sinner with rancor and without good will falls, according to a spiritual law, into the same passion with the sinner.

When you have been insulted, cursed, or persecuted by someone, do not think of what has happened to you, but of what will come from it, and you will see that your insulter has become the cause of many benefits to you, not only in this age, but in that which is to come.