I exhort and entreat you all, disregard what this man and that man thinks about these things, and inquire from the Scriptures all these things.

Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379 Humility is the root, mother, nurse, foundation, and bond of all virtue.

Prayer is an all-efficient panoply, a treasure undiminished, a mine which is never exhausted, a sky unobscured by clouds, a heaven unruffled by the storm. It is the root, the fountain, the mother of a thousand blessings.

I do not think there are many among Bishops that will be saved, but many more that perish.

Where dance is, there is the devil.

When one is required to preside over the Church, and be entrusted with the care of so many souls, the whole female sex must retire before the magnitude of the task, and the majority of men also.

Prayer is the root, the fountain, the mother of a thousand blessings.