If bodies please thee, praise God on occasion of them, and turn back thy love upon their Maker; lest in these things which please thee, thou displease. If souls please thee, be they loved in God: for they too are mutable, but in Him they are firmly established.

Nothing conquers except truth and the victory of truth is love.

Charity is the root of all good works.

Let no one flatter himself; of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.

For so it is, O Lord my God, I measure it! But what it is I measure, I do not know.

Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.

Moreover, from the time when He said, 'Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven;' and again, 'He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it; ' no one becomes a member of Christ except it be either by baptism in Christ, or death for Christ.