Spiritual Sentences

Spiritual sentences arranged according to the alphabet. 1 The beginning of salvation is self-condemnation. 2 It is better to throw a stone in vain than a word. 3 Become to all people what you wish all people to be. 4 One practices justice more by deed than by word. 5 A pious man is not one who pities many, but one who does injustice to no one. 6 To live lying upon a mat and to be courageous is better than to be troubled having a golden bed. 7 Pleasant is that friend who nourishes the soul. 8 Revere God indeed by deeds, but honor Him by word, and by thought. 9 Prudence and life and nobility make the priest. 10 It is worst to be a slave to shameful passions. 11 Teach virtue indeed by word, but proclaim it by deed. 12 Do not think that having virtue is good, but rather to be as it is necessary. 13 Honoring law, according to law you shall live. 14 A stranger is he whose things are foreign to the world. 15 He who envies harms himself; for he, speaking evil against another, destroys himself by suffering evil. 16 A rich man, neither flatter nor provoke. 17 Wine indeed strengthens the body, but the word of God the soul. 18 Use food not for the pleasant, but for the useful. 19 Trying to please the crowds, you will be like the crowds. 20 Above all things, use the body as a tool. 21 Industrious...

The text ends abruptly at 'Φιλόπονος' (Industrious/Zealous).