Guard your mind from self-praise and flee a high opinion of yourself, so that God does not allow you to fall into the opposite passion to the virtue for which you boast, for man does not accomplish virtue alone, but with the help of God who sees all.

No one is as good and merciful as the Lord. But even He does not forgive the unrepentant.

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.

Whoever prays for those who hurt him lays the demons low; but he who opposes his affronter is bound to the demons.

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

Conquer temptations by the patience and prayer. If you oppose them without these, you will fall all the more severely.