Humility and suffering free a man from all sin; for the first cuts out spiritual passions, and the latter bodily.

In conformity with the philosophy of Christ, let us make of our life a training for death.

Christianity is an entirely new way of being human.

Peace is truly the complete and undisturbed possession of what is desired.

Theology without practice is the theology of demons

In the beginning, passion and pain were not created together with the body; nor forgetfulness and ignorance together with the soul; nor the ever-changing impressions in the shape of events with the mind. All these things were brought about in man by his disobedience.

If you expound the teaching of the Logos from the standpoint of the moral life, using materialistic words and examples which correspond to the capacity of your hearers, you make the Logos flesh. Conversely, if you elucidate mystical theology by means of the higher forms of contemplation you make the Logos spirit.