Let us return from that Table like lions breathing out fire, terrifying to the devil!

Just as those who are deprived of light cannot walk straight, so also those who do not behold the ray of the Holy Scriptures must necessarily sin, since they walk in the deepest darkness.

Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts

What gnats are compared with humans, so is the whole creation compared with God.

Shall I tell you of their plundering, their covetousness, their abandonment of the poor, their thefts, their cheating in trade?

The test of sincerity of one's prayer is the willingness to labor on its behalf.

God helps those who work, not those who are idle. No one helps an inactive person, but one who joins in the labor. The good God himself will bring...work to perfection.