As God illumines all people equally with the light of the sun, so do those who desire to imitate God let shine an equal ray of love on all people. For wherever love disappears, hatred immediately appears in its place. And if God is love, then hatred is the devil. Therefore as one who has love has God within himself, so he who has hatred within himself nurtures the devil within himself.

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.

Let sleep itself be an exercise in piety, for such as our life and conduct have been, so also of necessity will be our dreams.

In the very nature of every human being has been sown the seed of the ability to love. You and I ought to welcome this seed, cultivate it carefully, nourish it attentively and foster its growth by going to the school of God's commandments with help of His grace.

There is nothing unpremeditated, nothing neglected by God. His unsleeping eye beholds all things.

As it is impossible to verbally describe the sweetness of honey to one who has never tasted honey, so the goodness of God cannot be clearly communicated by way of teaching if we ourselves are not able to penetrate into the goodness of the Lord by our own experience.

We must always be on guard lest, under the pretext of keeping one commandment, we be found breaking another.