Occupation: Saint Birth: 330 Death: January 1, 379
Resolve to treat the things in your possession as belonging to others..
What is the mark of love for your neighbor? Not to seek what is for your own benefit, but what is for the benefit of the one loved, both in body and ….
The bread you store up belongs to the hungry; the cloak that lies in your chest belongs to the naked; the gold you have hidden in the ground belongs ….
Do not say, "this happened by chance, while this came to be of itself." In all that exists there is nothing disorderly, nothing indefinite, nothing w….
The hairsplitting difference between formed and unformed makes no difference to us. Whoever deliberately commits abortion is subject to the penalty ….
A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gather….
I have learned from Jesus Christ Himself what charity is, and how we ought to practise it; for He says: "By this shall all men know that ye are My di….
The human being is an animal who has received the vocation to become God..
Everyone looks for the good, therefore everyone looks for God..
We need not only read Sacred Scripture, but learn it as well and grow up in it. Realize that nothing is written in Scripture unnecessarily. Not to re….
They who sow courtesy reap friendship, and they who plant kindness gather love..
As it is impossible to verbally describe the sweetness of honey to one who has never tasted honey, so the goodness of God cannot be clearly communica….
The love of God is not taught. No one has taught us to enjoy the light or to be attached to life more than anything else. And no one has taught us ….
Every divine action begins from the Father, proceeds through the Son, and is completed in the Holy Spirit..
He who plants kindness gathers love..
There is still time for endurance, time for patience, time for healing, time for change. Have you slipped? Rise up. Have you sinned? Cease. Do not st….
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger..
It is not he who begins well who is perfect. It is he who ends well who is approved in God's sight..
When someone steals another's clothes, we call them a thief. Should we not give the same name to one who could clothe the naked and does not? The bre….
As the pilot of a vessel is tried in the storm; as the wrestler is tried in the ring, the soldier in the battle, and the hero in adversity: so is the….
The sun penetrates crystal and makes it more dazzling. In the same way, the sanctifying Spirit indwells in souls and makes them more radiant. They be….