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?

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.

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

Every time that we sin, we are born of the devil. But every time that we do good, we are born of 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

The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others.

Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead