Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness.

He who hears this name [God] from a Jew must inform the authorities, or else throw sow dung at him when he sees him and chase him away.

There are some of us who think to ourselves, 'If I had only been there! How quick I would have been to help the Baby. I would have washed His linen. How happy I would have been to go with the shepherds to see the Lord lying in the manger!' Why don't we do it now? We have Christ in our neighbor.

We may well lie with what seems to be a woman of flesh and blood, and yet all the time it is only a devil in the shape of a woman.

Thus every matter, if it is to be done well, calls for the attention of the whole person.

God is not hostile to sinners, but only to unbelievers.

To do so no more is the truest repentance.