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.

One who strictly prosecutes the misdemeanors of others will find not condescension towards his own.

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

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 Jews were God's chosen people.

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.

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.