This world and the world to come are two enemies. We cannot therefore be friends to both; but we must decide which we will forsake and which we will ….

... if we say that the Father is the origin of the Son and greater than the Son, we do not suggest any precedence in time or superiority in nature of….

The real wants of nature are the measure of enjoyments, as the foot is the measure of the shoe. We can call only the want of what is necessary povert….

Let us cleave... to those who cultivate peace with godliness, and not to those who hypocritically profess to desire it. For the Scripture says in a c….

We should let God be the One to praise us and not praise ourselves. For God detests those who commend themselves. Let others applaud our good deeds..

Filthy talk makes us feel comfortable with filthy action. But the one who knows how to control the tongue is prepared to resist the attacks of lust.

... faithfully and strenuously you should resist the heretics in defense of the only true and life-giving faith, which the Church has received - the ….

He who is chaste in flesh should not be proud, for he should know that he owes the gift of continence to another..

Who can describe the bond of God's love? Who is able to explain the majesty of its beauty? The height to which love leads is indescribable. ... In lo….

How blessed and amazing are God's gifts, dear friends! Life with immortality, splendor with righteous, truth with confidence, faith with assurance, s….

Follow the saints, because those who follow them will become saints..

And we, too, being called by His will in Christ Jesus, are not justified by ourselves, nor by our own wisdom, or understanding, or godliness, or work….

Let us teach the young in the school of the fear of the Lord..

Charity unites us to God... There is nothing mean in charity, nothing arrogant. Charity knows no schism, does not rebel, does all things in concord. ….

A companion is but another self; wherefore it is an argument that a man is wicked if he keep company with the wicked..

If any one say that he has seen a just man in want of bread, I answer that it was in some place where there was no other just man..

Because of its divine institution for the propagation of man, the seed is not to be vainly ejaculated, nor is it to be damaged, nor is it to be waste….

God hates those who praise themselves..