Marcus Eremita

"Concern yourself with your own sins and not with those of your neighbor; then the workplace of your intellect will not be robbed."

"The intellect cannot be still unless the body is still also: and the wall between them cannot be demolished without stillness and prayer."

"Love is the last of the virtues to be born in the heart, but it is the first in value."

"Do not say: 'I do not know what is right, therefore I am not to blame when I fail to do it.' For if you did all the good about which you do know, what you should do next would then become clear to you…"

"A passion which we allow to grow active within us through our own choice afterwards forces itself upon us against our will."

"However great our virtuous actions of today, they do not requite but condemn our past negligence."

"I have seen unlearned men who were truly humble, and they became wiser than the wise."

"The devil belittles small sins; otherwise he cannot lead us into greater ones."