“Open your compassion to all who are enrolled as the disciples of God. Don’t look contemptuously at personal appearance. Don’t be carelessly disposed to only a certain age group. If someone appears to be penniless, or ragged, or ugly, or feeble, don’t let your soul fret about it and turn away from them. Our bodies […]
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“But ‘to convert’ means that we in fact cease from our sins and no longer look behind.”
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“To keep from wrong is the beginning of salvation.”
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“He who does not believe God is cheated of his own hope. And he does not believe God, who does not do what God has commanded.”
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“We who used to value the acquisition of wealth and possessions more than anything else now bring what we have into a common fund and share it with anyone who needs it. We used to hate and destroy one another and refused to associate with people of another race or country. Now, because of Christ,
“It is clear that the devil is driven out in baptism by the faith of the believer. But he returns if the faith should afterwards fail.”
“He who has not denied himself, but denied Christ, will experience the saying ‘I also will deny him.’”
“Certain ones of those [heretics] who hold different opinions misuse these passages. They essentially destroy free will by introducing ruined natures incapable of salvation and by introducing others as being saved in such a way that they cannot be lost.”
“A man may possess an acquired righteousness, from which it is possible for him to fall away.”
“God had foreseen… that faith – even after baptism – would be endangered. He saw that most persons – after obtaining salvation – would be lost again, by soiling the wedding dress, by failing to provide oil for their torches.”