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?
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.
The teacher should regard the pupil as his child. The pupil should regard the teacher as his parent.
Likewise the spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but the spirit himself intercedes for us with sighs too deep for words. And he who searches the hearts of men knows the mind of the spirit, because the spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.
He who loves money will not be satisfied with money; nor he who loves wealth, with gain: this also is vanity.
