By Baptism we are made flesh of the Crucified

Truth, which is simple and one, admits of no variety.

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

No one, however weak, is denied a share in the victory of the cross. No one is beyond the help of the prayer of Christ.

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.

The cross of Christ is the true ground and chief cause of Christian hope.

It is not enough to know the Son of God in the Father's nature only, unless we acknowledge Him in what is ours without withdrawal of what is His own. For that self-emptying, which He underwent for man's restoration, was the dispensation of compassion, not the loss of power. For, though by the eternal purpose of God there was 'no other name under heaven given to men whereby they must be saved' (Acts 4:12), the Invisible made His substance visible, the Intemporal temporal, the Impassable passable: not that power might sink into weakness, but that weakness might pass into indestructible power.