Let us cleave... to those who cultivate peace with godliness, and not to those who hypocritically profess to desire it. For the Scripture says in a certain place (Mk. 7:6), 'This people honors Me with their lips, but their hearts is far from Me.'

Let us cleave... to those who cultivate peace with godliness, and not to those who hypocritically profess to desire it. For the Scripture says in a certain place (Mk. 7:6), 'This people honors Me with their lips, but their hearts is far from Me.'

This world and the world to come are two enemies. We cannot therefore be friends to both; but we must decide which we will forsake and which we will enjoy.

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

Follow the saints, because those who follow them will become saints.

God hates those who praise themselves.

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.