So give to the poor; I'm begging you, I'm warning you, I'm commanding you, I'm ordering you.

If a parricide is more wicked than anyone who commits homicide-because he kills not merely a man but a near relative-without doubt worse still is he who kills himself, because there is none nearer to a man than himself.

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

The ministry is a weight from which even an angel might shrink

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending.

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.