Marriage:  A community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret

 Augustine

If you plan to build a tall house of virtues, you must first lay deep foundations of humility.

What is a friend?  A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.
God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
They, then, who are destined to die, need not be careful to inquire what death they are to die, but into what place death will usher them.

Christ is not valued at all unless He is valued above all.

He wishes to give who advises us to ask.

Drunkenness is a flattering devil, a sweet poison, a pleasant sin; whosoever has it, has not himself.
 

If thou sin, the word of God is thy adversary.  It is the adversary of thy will till it become the author of thy salvation."
Salvation is God's way of making us real people

Nothing so clearly discovers a spiritual man as his treatment of an erring brother

Behave towards your inferiors as you would wish your betters to behave to you.

In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work. -- Seneca The Younger

Remember death and the attractions of life will fade away before you. – Shenouda III

Carry the cross patiently, and with perfect submission; and in the end it shall carry you. – Thomas à Kempis

Through a tree we were made debtors to God; so through a tree we have our debt canceled. – Irenaeus

In order to attain the citadel of contemplation you must begin by exercising yourself in the field of labor. – Gregory the Great

If God is thy father, man is thy brother. – Alphonse de Lamartine

There are many sheep without, many wolves within. – Augustine of Hippo

The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise. – Tacitus

Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ. – Jerome

The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return the better to thinking. – Phaedrus