"'When God created man, he breathed into him something divine, as it were a hot and bright spark added to reason, whic…"

"'Suppose we were to take a compass and insert the point and draw the outline of a circle. The centre point is the sam…"

"'Let us examine brothers, how it is that at one time a man hears disparaging remark and passes it by without being di…"

"'A man who gives way to his passions and suffers for it is like a man who is shot at by an enemy, catches the arrow i…"

"'Therefore, everyone who wants to be saved must not only stop doing evil, also work at what is good, as it says in th…"

"'Hold fast to indifference in knowledge and believe that everything that concerns us, even the most trivial thing, ha…"

"'Do not desire to know the evils of your neighbor and do not entertain suspicions about him, but if suspicious though…"

"'As was said about Abbot Anthony, brethren, namely, that when he was visiting the whatever good he saw in each he set…"

"'I heard about a certain brother who, if he saw that his [brethren's] cell was uncared for and disorderly when he wen…"

"'In all things that come upon me I never desire to run around in quest of human wisdom, but I always act with the sma…"