Act in such a way that your humility may not be weakness, nor your authority be severity. Justice must be accompanied by humility, that humility may render justice lovable.

The Bible is a stream of running water, where alike the elephant may swim, and the lamb walk without losing its feet.

You don't climb a mountain in leaps and bounds, but by taking it slowly.

Now if the wearing of fine and precious robes were not a fault, word of God would never have so carefully expressed this. For no one seeks costly garments except for vainglory, that he may seem more honorable than others; for no one wishes to be clothed with such, where he cannot be seen by others.

We must observe also, that among the heathen the names of poor men are more likely to be known than of rich. Now our Lord mentions the name of the poor, but not the name of the rich, because God knows and approves the humble, but not the proud.

If the intention is unclean, the deed that follows from it will also be evil, even if it seems good.

Ignorance is a dangerous and spiritual poison, which all men ought warily to shun.