1. “Prayers will never reach God unless they are founded on free mercy.”
2. “Whatever a person may be like, we must still love them because we love God.”
3. “Without the fear of God, men do not even observe justice and charity among themselves.”
4. “Prayer unaccompanied by perseverance leads to no result.”
5. “A perfect faith is nowhere to be found, so it follows that all of us are partly unbelievers.”
6. “Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to receive.”
7. “Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by properity.”
8. “Humility is the beginning of true intelligence.”
9. “There is no knowing that does not begin with knowing God.”
10. “When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.”
11. “True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.”
12. “Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance.”
13. “Unless men establish their complete happiness in God, they will never give themselves truly and sincerely to him.”
14. “The surest source of destruction to men is to obey themselves.”
15. “The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.”
16. “In forming an estimate of sins, we are often imposed upon by imagining that the more hidden the less heinous they are.”
17. “Faith does not proceed from ourselves, but is the fruit of spiritual regeneration.”
18. “Prayer doesn’t change things – God changes things in answer to prayer.”
19. “There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make men rejoice.”
20. “Peace is not to be purchased by the sacrifice of truth.”
