To love Christ -means not to be a hireling, not to look upon a noble life as an enterprise or trade, but to be a true benefactor and to do everything only for the sake of love for God.

A comprehended god is no god.

Yet, when we must put aside our wrath, quench our envy, soften our anger, offer our prayers, and show a disposition which is reasonable, mild, kindly, and loving, how could poverty stand in our way? For we accomplish these things not by spending money but by making the correct choice.

Depart from the highway, and transplant thyself in some enclosed ground; for it is hard for a tree that stands by the wayside to keep her fruit till it be ripe.

If you would rise, shun luxury, for luxury lowers and degrades.

An insult is either sustained or destroyed, not by the disposition of those who insult, but by the disposition of those who bear it.

Shall I tell you of their plundering, their covetousness, their abandonment of the poor, their thefts, their cheating in trade?