Memory of our good works makes us negligent and leads to arrogance. Do not think of your good deeds, so that God may remember them.

If then we have Angels, let us be sober, as though we were in the presence of tutors; for there is a demon present also.

Every time that we sin, we are born of the devil. But every time that we do good, we are born of God.

Nothing is more powerful than meekness. For as fire is extinguished by water, so a mind inflated by anger is subdued by meekness. By meekness we practice and make known our virtue, and also cause the indignation of our brother to cease, and deliver his mind from perturbation.

Of all the afflictions that burden the human race, there is not one, whether spiritual or bodily, that cannot be healed by the Holy Scriptures.

For if you change from inhumanity to alms giving, you have stretched fourth the hand that was withered. If you withdraw from theaters and go to church, you have cured the lame foot. If you draw back your eyes from a harlot ... you have opened them when they were blind ... These are the greatest miracles.

The drunken man is a living corpse.