No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.
Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead
Fasting is a medicine.
Every man is the painter and the sculptor of his own life.
Wine was given us by God, not that we might be drunken, but that we might be sober. It is the best medicine when it has the best moderation to direct it. Wine was given to restore the body's weakness, not to overturn the soul's strength.
What gnats are compared with humans, so is the whole creation compared with God.