God loves us more than a father, mother, friend, or any else could love, and even more than we are able to love ourselves.
Of all the afflictions that burden the human race, there is not one, whether spiritual or bodily, that cannot be healed by the Holy Scriptures.
As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man.
The Holy Scriptures lead us to God and open the path to the knowledge of God.
Sin makes man a coward; but a life in the Truth of Christ makes Him bold.
Are you angry? Be angry at your sins, beat your soul, afflict your conscience, but strict in judgement and a terrible punisher of your own sins. This is the benefit of anger, wherefore God placed it in us.
Just as those who are deprived of light cannot walk straight, so also those who do not behold the ray of the Holy Scriptures must necessarily sin, since they walk in the deepest darkness.
Every time that we sin, we are born of the devil. But every time that we do good, we are born of God.
Do you think that the man-loving God has given you much so that you could use it only for your own benefit? No, but so that your abundance might supply the lack of others.
One who strictly prosecutes the misdemeanors of others will find not condescension towards his own.
If we were not passionately inclined to money or to vainglory, then we would not fear death or poverty. We would not know enmity or hatred, and we would not suffer from the sorrows of ourselves or others.
