The one who wants to love God has to take care about the purity of the soul, first of all. This purity is attained through conquering the passions. (The one who has not conquered the passions cannot enter) the chaste and pure region of the heart. Do not hate a sinner, for we all are to be res­pon­sible.

The acme of humbleness is to forget unfalteringly good deeds of oneself.

The acme of faith is... immersion of the mind in God.

Those who are not capable of sinning are said that they have attained freedom. The knowledge of the Truth raises them even more. This makes them both free and above this world. But only Love creates. He who became free thanks to knowledge, because of Love remains a slave of those who have not managed to attain the Freedom of knowledge yet. He brings the knowledge to them and this develops the latter because it calls them to the Freedom. Love takes nothing: how can it take something? Everything belongs to it. It does not say, "This is mine! And this is mine!" But it says: "This is yours!"

If you want to conquer lust for wealth, love selflessness and sparing way of life.

The one who has not conquered the passions cannot enter the chaste and pure region of the heart.

And "withdrawal from the world" is nothing but the destruction of passions and manifestation of the innermost life in Christ.