“Those who have castrated themselves from all sin for the sake of the kingdom of heaven, are blessed; they abstain from the world.”

“Those who have castrated themselves from all sin for the sake of the kingdom of heaven, are blessed; they abstain from the world.”

“Do not think that we say that these things are only to be received by faith, but also that they are to be asserted by reason. For indeed it is not safe to commit these things to bare faith without reason, since assuredly truth cannot be without reason.”

“Our superintendence in instruction and discipline is the office of the Word, from whom we learn frugality and humility, and all that pertains to love of truth, love of humanity, and love of excellence. And so, in a word, being assimilated to God by participation in moral excellence, we must not retrograde into carelessness and sloth. But labor, and faint not.”