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

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.

We must receive the one who curses us as a messenger from God, rebuking our hidden evil thoughts, so that we, seeing our thoughts with exactness, might correct ourselves. For we do not know how many hidden evils we have; Only a perfect man can understand all of his own shortcomings.

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.

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

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.

He who willingly accepts chastening by affliction is not dominated by evil thoughts against his will; whereas he who does not accept affliction is taken prisoner by evil thoughts, even though he resists them.