Who can describe the bond of God's love? Who is able to explain the majesty of its beauty? The height to which love leads is indescribable. ... In love the master received us, Jesus Christ our Lord, in accordance with God's will gave his blood for us, and his flesh for our flesh, and his life for our lives.

A companion is but another self; wherefore it is an argument that a man is wicked if he keep company with the wicked.

We should let God be the One to praise us and not praise ourselves. For God detests those who commend themselves. Let others applaud our good deeds.

How blessed and amazing are God's gifts, dear friends! Life with immortality, splendor with righteous, truth with confidence, faith with assurance, self-control with holiness! And all these things are within our comprehension.

God hates those who praise themselves.

He who is chaste in flesh should not be proud, for he should know that he owes the gift of continence to another.

If any one say that he has seen a just man in want of bread, I answer that it was in some place where there was no other just man.