Virtue is nothing without the trial of temptation, for there is no conflict without an enemy, no victory without strife.

Virtue is nothing without the trial of temptation, for there is no conflict without an enemy, no victory without strife.

Teach nothing new, but instill into all men's breasts those things which the Fathers of revered memory have with harmony of statement taught... Preach nothing else than what we received from our forefathers... Accordingly, both in the rule of faith and in the observance of discipline, let the standard of antiquity be maintained throughout.

And each one is a partaker of this spiritual origin in regeneration; and to every one when he is re-born, the water of baptism is like the Virgin's womb; for the same Holy Spirit fills the font, Who filled the Virgin, that the sin, which that sacred conception overthrew, may be taken away by this mystical washing.

The faith of those who live their faith is a serene faith. What you long for will be given you; what you love will be yours for ever.

Those who are not good to others are bad to themselves.

A great safeguard is the entire faith, the true faith, in which neither anything whatever can be added by anyone nor anything taken away; for, unless faith be one, it is not the faith.