Failure to do the good that is within your power is hard to forgive. But mercy and prayer reclaim the negligent.

He who seeks forgiveness of his sins loves humility, but if he condemns another he seals his own wickedness.

As water and fire oppose one another when combined, so are self-justification and humility opposed to one another.

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.

The devil makes small sins seem smaller in our eyes, for otherwise he can't lead us to greater evil.

Whoever does not fight the one who despises him, neither in word not in thought, has received true knowledge and demonstrates a firm trust in God.

If you want the Lord to hide your sins, then don't talk to people about what kind of virtues you have. For as we relate to our virtues, so God relates to our sins.