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

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.

Because God's justice is inexorable, it is hard to obtain forgiveness for sins committed with complete deliberation.

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

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

A man who is enticed by sinful thoughts is blinded by them, and he sees the action of sin in himself, but he can not see the cause of this action.

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.