Be ashamed when you sin, not when you repent.

Imagine your anger to be a kind of wild beast, because it has ferocious teeth and claws, and if you don't tame it, it will devastate all things even corrupting the soul.

Let no one mourn that he has fallen again and again; for forgiveness has risen from the grave.

No one has ever been accused for not providing ornaments, but for those who neglect their neighbour a hell awaits with an inextinguishable fire and torment in the company of the demons. Do not, therefore, adorn the church and ignore your afflicted brother, for he is the most precious temple of all.

The Holy Scriptures do not know any distinctions. They enjoin that all lead the life of monks.

What the soul is in the body, let Christians be in the world.

What is it to be a fool for Christ? It is to control one's thoughts when they stray out of line. It is to make the mind empty and free.