For if you change from inhumanity to alms giving, you have stretched fourth the hand that was withered. If you withdraw from theaters and go to church, you have cured the lame foot. If you draw back your eyes from a harlot ... you have opened them when they were blind ... These are the greatest miracles.

God does not forsake you. It is because he wishes to increase your glory that oftentimes he permits you to fall sick. Keep up your courage so that you may also hear him say: Do you think I have dealt with you otherwise than that you may be shown to be just?

I exhort and entreat you all, disregard what this man and that man thinks about these things, and inquire from the Scriptures all these things.

We must not mind insulting men, if by respecting them we offend God.

Woman -a foe of friendship, an inescapable punishment, a necessary evil.

I am a Christian. He who answers thus has declared everything at once-his country, profession, family; the believer belongs to no city on earth but to the heavenly Jerusalem.

Whether or not our prayer is heard depends not on the number of our words, but on the fervor of our souls.