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.

If someone puts his trust in God in a matter, let him not argue with his brother about it.

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

When the mind forgets the purpose of Christian life, then even the clear fulfillment of virtue becomes profitless.

If someone falls into any sin and is not sincerely grieved about it, it is easy for him to fall into the same thing again.

God tested Abraham. That is, he sent him afflictions for his benefit, not so that he could find out what sort of man he was, for God knows everything, but so that He give him the means to perfect his faith.

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.