When we teach our children to be good, to be gentle, to be forgiving (all these are attributes of God), to be generous, to love their follow men, to regard this present age as nothing, we instill virtue in their souls, and reveal the image of God within them.

The Holy Scriptures lead us to God and open the path to the knowledge of God.

If then we have Angels, let us be sober, as though we were in the presence of tutors; for there is a demon present also.

God loves us more than a father, mother, friend, or any else could love, and even more than we are able to love ourselves.

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.

It brings comfort to have companions in whatever happens.

Woman is a necessary evil, a natural temptation, a desirable calamity, a domestic peril, a deadly fascination, and a painted ill.