Just as those who are deprived of light cannot walk straight, so also those who do not behold the ray of the Holy Scriptures must necessarily sin, since they walk in the deepest darkness.

The slave should be resigned to his lot, in obeying his master he is obeying God.

Only those who do not fight are never wounded.

This is the highest point of philosophy, to be simple & wise; this is the angelic life.

We ought not, as soon as we leave church, to plunge into business unsuited to church, but as soon as we get home, we should take the Scriptures into our hands, and call our wife and children to join us in putting together what we have heard in church.

To destroy the fetus 'is something worse than murder.' The one who does this 'does not take away life that has already been born, but prevents it from being born.'

As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man.