There is harm not only in trying to gain wealth but also in excessive concern with even the most necessary things. It is not enough to despise wealth, but you must also feed the poor and, more importantly, you must follow Christ.

Depart from the highway, and transplant thyself in some enclosed ground; for it is hard for a tree that stands by the wayside to keep her fruit till it be ripe.

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

Is it not excessively ridiculous to seek the good opinion of those whom you would never wish to be like?

Laughter does not seem to be a sin, but it leads to sin.

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.

Good men do not always have grace and favor, lest they should be puffed up, and grow insolent and proud.