If a monk can overcome two things, he can become free from the world. Bodily ease and vain-glory.

An old man said, We are not condemned because of our thoughts that enter us, but because we use our thoughts badly; our thoughts can cause us either to suffer shipwreck or to be crowned.

If a monk can overcome two things, he can become free from the world. Bodily ease and vain-glory.

The beginning of evil is heedlessness.

Teach the mouth to say what you have in your heart.

God has given this way of life to Israel: to abstain from everything which is contrary to nature, that is to say, anger, fits of passion, jealousy, hatred and slandering the brethren; in short, everything that is characteristic of the old man.

Will not God, who has commanded men to act thus, do as much himself and even more? For God commanded Peter to forgive till seventy times seven.