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Learn to love humility, for it will. . .

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“Learn to love humility, for it will cover all your sins.  All sins are repulsive before God, but the most repulsive of all is pride of the heart.  Do not consider yourself learned and wise; otherwise, all your efforts will be destroyed, and your boat will reach the harbor empty.  If you have great authority, do not threaten anyone with death.  Know that, according to nature, you too are susceptible to death, and that every soul sheds its body as its final garment.”

— St. Anthony the Great

Take away the. . .

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Take away the contests of the martyrs, and you have taken away their crowns.

-Saint Ambrose of Milan

God, who preferred the. . .

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God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide be punished by the exaction of another act of homicide. –

Saint Ambrose of Milan

No one is good but. . .

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No one is good but God alone. What is good is therefore divine, what is divine is therefore good.

-Saint Ambrose of Milan

It is not from your own goods that. . .

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It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to him. The Earth belongs to all. So you are paying back a debt and think you are making a gift to which you are not bound.

-Saint Ambrose of Milan

There is your brother. . .

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“There is your brother, naked, crying, and you stand there confused over the choice of an attractive floor covering.”

— St. Ambrose of Milan

 

“Yea, O Lord and King, grant me. . .

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“Yea, O Lord and King, grant me to see my own sin and not to judge my brother, for You are blessed from all ages to all ages. Amen”

— Ephrem the Syrian

St. Ephraim: Glory be to Him, Who never felt the need of our praising Him . . .

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“Glory be to Him, Who never felt the need of our praising Him; yet felt the need as being kind to us, and thirsted as loving us, and asks us to give to Him, and longs to give to us. His fruit was mingled with us men, that in Him we might come near to Him, Who condescended to us. By the Fruit of His stem He grafted us into His Tree.”

— St. Ephraim the Syrian

 

St. John Chrysostom: Be aware not to be corrupted from love . . .

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“Be aware not to be corrupted from love of the heretics; for this reason do not accept any false belief (dogma) in the name of love.”

— St. John Chrysostom

St. John Chrysostom: Almgiving above all else requires money, but. . .

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“Almsgiving above all else requires money, but even this shines with a brighter luster when the alms are given from our poverty. The widow who paid in the two mites was poorer than any human, but she outdid them all.”

+ St. John Chrysostom