For which of you desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it?
Everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if is received with thanksgiving: for then it is consecrated by the word of God and prayer.
Let love of the brethren continue. Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by this some have entertained angels without knowing it.
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may prove what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
He who loves money will not be satisfied with money; nor he who loves wealth, with gain: this also is vanity.
God created man incorruptible, and made him in the image of his own nature, but through the devil’s envy, death came into the world.
