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.

Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors?

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.

Every divine action begins from the Father, proceeds through the Son, and is completed in the Holy Spirit.

While we try to amass wealth, make piles of money, get hold of the land as our real property, overtop one another in riches, we have palpably cast off justice, and lost the common good. I should like to know how any man can be just, who is deliberately aiming to get out of someone else what he wants for himself.

You can see that a city is prosperous by the wealth of goods for sale in the market. Land too we call prosperous if it bears rich fruit. And so also the soul may be counted prosperous if it is full of good works of every kind.

We should not think that we achieve success in preaching through our own devices, but we should rely entirely on God.