Virtue is nothing without the trial of temptation, for there is no conflict without an enemy, no victory without strife.

Peace is the first thing the angels sang. Peace is the mark of the children of God. Peace is the nurse of love. Peace is the mother of unity. Peace is the rest of the blessed souls. Peace is the dwelling place of eternity.

... the Apostle says, 'he that says he abides in Christ ought himself also to walk as He walked' (I Jn. 2:6). Otherwise we make a vain pretence and show, if we follow not His steps, Whose name we glory in, and assuredly they would not be irksome to us, but would free us from all dangers, if we loved nothing but what He commanded us to love.

And each one is a partaker of this spiritual origin in regeneration and to every one when he is re-born, the water of baptism is like the Virgin's womb for the same Holy Spirit fills the font, Who filled the Virgin, that the sin, which that sacred conception overthrew, may be taken away by this mystical washing.

A great safeguard is the entire faith, the true faith, in which neither anything whatever can be added by anyone nor anything taken away for, unless faith be one, it is not the faith.

The faith by which we live shall never vary in any age . . . for one is the faith which sanctifies the Just of all ages.

Beyond our grasp, He chose to come within our grasp. Existing before time began, He began to exist at a moment in time.

He that sees another in error and endeavors not to correct it, testifies himself to be in error.

The cross of Christ is the true ground and chief cause of Christian hope.

Teach nothing new, but instill into all men's breasts those things which the Fathers of revered memory have with harmony of statement taught... Preach nothing else than what we received from our forefathers... Accordingly, both in the rule of faith and in the observance of discipline, let the standard of antiquity be maintained throughout.

The devil is always discovering something novel against the truth.

No one, however weak, is denied a share in the victory of the cross. No one is beyond the help of the prayer of Christ.

Let no one be ashamed of the cross by which Christ has redeemed the world. None of us must be afraid to suffer for the sake of justice or doubt the fulfillment of the promises, for it is through toil that we come to rest and through death that we pass to life.