When someone steals a person's clothes, we call him a thief. Should we not also give the same name to the one who could clothe the naked but does not?

They who sow courtesy reap friendship, and they who plant kindness gather love.

If every man took only what was sufficient for his needs, leaving the rest to those in want, there would be no rich and no poor.

I have learned from Jesus Christ Himself what charity is, and how we ought to practise it; for He says: "By this shall all men know that ye are My disciples, if ye love one another." Never can I, therefore, please myself in the hope that I may obtain the name of a servant of Christ if I possess not a true and unfeigned charity within me.

Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights of paradise, so also we would not require the medical art for relief if we were immune to disease, as was the case, by God's gift, at the time of Creation before the Fall.

We glorify the Holy Ghost together with the Father and the Son, from the conviction that He is not separated from the Divine Nature; for that which is foreign by nature does not share in the same honors.

He who is guilty of unseemliness with males will be under discipline for the same time as adulterers.