Do not attempt to benefit by rebukes one who boasts of his virtues, for he loves to display himself can not be a lover of truth.

Do not try to decide a difficult matter by means of disputing, but that which is enjoined by the spiritual law, namely patience, prayer, and thoughtful hope.

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

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.

Whoever has a spiritual gift and compassionate toward one who does not have it guards his gift through his compassion. But whoever is proud of his gift loses it through self-opinion.

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

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.