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.

Not to share our own wealth with the poor is theft from the poor and deprivation of their means of life; we do not possess our own wealth, but theirs.

We must not mind insulting men, if by respecting them we offend God.

A friend is more to be longed for than the light; I speak of a genuine one. And wonder not: for it were better for us that the sun should be extinguished, than that we should be deprived of friends; better to live in darkness, than to be without friends

It is folly to abstain all day long from food, but fail to abstain from sin and selfishness.

A comprehended god is no god.

Sin makes man a coward; but a life in the Truth of Christ makes Him bold.