Dost thou wish to receive mercy? Show mercy to thy neighbor.

It is possible to offer fervent prayer even while walking in public or strolling alone or seated in your shop ... while buying or selling ... or even while cooking.

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

Every trace of the old philosophy and literatureof the ancient world has vanished from the face of the earth.

Fasting is a medicine.

If repentance is neglected for an instant, one can lose the power of the Resurrection as he lives with the weakness of tepidity and the potential of his fall.

What is dying? Just what it is to put off a garment. For the body is about the soul as a garment; and after laying this aside for a short time by means of death, we shall resume it again with more splendor.