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

The sky and the earth and the waters and the things that are in them, the fishes, and the birds and the trees are not evil. All these are good; it is evil men who make this evil world.

To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things.

You say to me 'Show me your God.' I answer you, 'Everything you see in your heart that might sadden God, remove.'

Don't let your life give evidence against your tongue. Sing with your voices... sing also with your conduct.

I thought that continence was a matter of our own strength, and I knew that I had not the strength: for in my utter foolishness I did not know the word of Your Scripture that none can be continent unless You give it.

The verdict of the world is conclusive.