The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?

Nothing so casts down the manly mind from it's height as the fondling of women and those bodily contacts which belong to the married state.

Make friends with angels.

In what is necessary, unity; in what is not necessary, liberty and in all things charity.

I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed.

Wonderful is the depth of thy words, whose surface is before us, gently leading on the little ones: and yet a wonderful deepness, O my God, a wonderful deepness. It is awe to look into it; even an awfulness of honour, and a trembling of love.

It is not the being seen of men that is wrong, but doing these things for the purpose of being seen of men. The problem with the hypocrite is his motivation. He does not want to be holy; he only wants to seem to be holy. He is more concerned with his reputation for righteousness than about actually becoming righteous. The approbation of men matters more to him than the approval of God.