Do you think that the man-loving God has given you much so that you could use it only for your own benefit? No, but so that your abundance might supply the lack of others.

Things themselves do not remain, but their effects do. Therefore we should not be mean and calculating with what we have but give with a generous hand. Look at how much people give to players and dancers-why not give just as much to Christ?

Feet were made, not given for dancing, but to walk modestly, not to leap impudently like camels.

If there were no tribulation, there would be no rest; if there were no winter, there would be no summer.

It is simply impossible to lead, without the aid of prayer, a virtuous life.

An insult is either sustained or destroyed, not by the disposition of those who insult, but by the disposition of those who bear it.

Please listen to me - you are not paying attention. I am talking to you about the Holy Scriptures, and you are looking at the lamps and the people lighting them. It is very frivolous to be more interested in what the lamplighters are doing... After all, I am lighting a lamp too - the lamp of God's Word.