We pray not to inform God or instruct Him but to beseech Him closely, to be made intimate with Him, by continuance in supplication; to be humbled; to be reminded of our sins.
The Holy Scriptures lead us to God and open the path to the knowledge of God.
What gnats are compared with humans, so is the whole creation compared with God.
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.
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.
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.
Let us return from that Table like lions breathing out fire, terrifying to the devil!
Sin makes man a coward; but a life in the truth of Christ makes him bold.
Where dance is, there is the devil.
Him who is dead and gone honor with remembrance, not with tears.
The Jews were God’s chosen people.
I exhort and entreat you all, disregard what this man and that man thinks about such things, and inquire from the Holy Scriptures all these things.
It is folly to abstain all day long from food, but fail to abstain from sin and selfishness.
Feet were made, not given for dancing, but to walk modestly, not to leap impudently like camels.
O most grateful burden, which comforts them that carry it! The burdens of earthly masters gradually wear out the strength of those who carry them; but the burden of Christ assists the bearers of it, because we carry not grace, but grace us.
Make account that thou hast done nothing, and then thou hast done all. For if, being sinners, when we account ourselves to be what we are, we become righteous, as indeed the Publican did; how much more, when being righteous we account ourselves to be sinners.
The desire to rule is the mother of heresies.
What prayer could be more true before God the Father than that which the Son, who is Truth, uttered with His own lips?
Nothing is more fallacious than wealth. It is a hostile comrade, a domestic enemy.
Shall I tell you of their plundering, their covetousness, their abandonment of the poor, their thefts, their cheating in trade?