The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before.

Why persist in walking difficult and toilsome paths? There is no repose where you are seeking it. Search as you like, it is not where you are looking. You are seeking a happy life in the realm of death, and it will not be found there. How could life be happy where there is no life at all?

In all your movements, let nothing be evident that would offend the eyes of another.

Where love is, what can be wanting? Where it is not, what can possibly be profitable?

Believe that you may understand.

Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.

The will is truly free, when it is not the slave of vices and sins.