I have devoted my energies to the study of the scriptures, observing monastic discipline, and singing the daily services in church; study, teaching, and writing have always been my delight.

I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.

If history records good things about good people, the thoughtful hearer is encouraged to imitate what is good; or if it records the evil of wicked people, the godly listener or reader is encouraged to avoid all that is sinful and bad, and to do what he knows to be good and pleasing to God.

While the Coliseum stands, Rome shall stand; when the Coliseum falls, Rome shall fall; when Rome falls, the world shall fall.

No man taketh away sins (which the law, though holy, just and good, could not take away), but He in whom there is no sin.

This life of man appears for a short space, but of what went before, or what is to follow, we are utterly ignorant.

We abide in God insofar as we do not sin.