Let us fix our eyes on the blood of Christ and understand how precious it is to His Father, because being poured out for our salvation it won for the whole world the grace of repentance. Let us review all the generations in turn, and learn that from generation to generation the Lord has granted a place of repentance to all such as would return to Him.

Let us therefore do all things as if He were dwelling in us, that we may be His temples, and He may be in us as our God. He is, in fact, the one who will grant this to us, whose love we share in, if we willingly abandon ourselves to Him. Take heed, then, to meet together more frequently for thanksgiving to the glory of God.

Stand fast therefore, and follow the example of the Lord, being firm in the faith and unmoveable, having the love of the Father and of Christ, and the love of our neighbor. Let us cleave to the Cross, and to Him who was crucified for us, bearing His reproach, and let us not seek the honors of this world.

We who formerly delighted in fornication now embrace chastity alone; we who formerly valued the acquisition of wealth and property now bring what we have into a common fund and share with everyone in need; we who hated and destroyed one another now pray for our enemies and endeavor to persuade those who hate us unjustly to live according to the good precepts of Christ.

The glory of God is a living man, and the life of man consists in beholding God. For if the manifestation of God which is made by means of the creation affords life to all who live on the earth, much more does that revelation of the Father which comes through the Word give life to those who see God.

Prayer alone conquers God. But Christ has willed that it should work no evil, that it should bestow no injury upon any one. It is innocent, it is pure, it is devout. It is the ornament of the soul, the source of humility, the sacrifice of righteousness, the bond of peace.

If we would understand the power of the divine words, we must not only read them as if they were a narrative, but we must also seek in them the hidden meaning that lies beneath the letter. For the whole divine Scripture is one oracle of God, and the Spirit who spoke through the prophets still speaks to the one who seeks Him.

God is one, and Christ is one, and His Church is one, and the faith is one, and the people are joined into one by the bond of unity. The Lord says, 'I and the Father are one.' So also the Church, which is one, is joined together by the bond of love and the fellowship of the saints.

He was made man that we might be made god; and He manifested Himself by a body that we might receive the idea of the unseen Father. He endured the insolence of men that we might inherit incorruption. For the Word of God was made flesh in order that we might be able to receive Him.

The Spirit is the source of holiness, a rational light, and in Himself incapable of deceit. He is the perfecter of all things, the treasure of sanctification. He distributes His own energies proportionately to the capacity of each, and fills all things with the grace of His presence.

It is necessary for us to be buried with Christ in order to rise with Him. For the baptism of the Spirit is a death to sin and a rising to God. Let us then keep the feast, not with the old leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

You have made us for Yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in You. Late have I loved You, beauty so ancient and so new, late have I loved You. You were with me, and I was not with You. You called, You cried, You shattered my deafness — and I tasted You, and I hunger and thirst for more.