All Sayings

Let those who for a long time, have been robbers, now become knights.

Let those who for a long time, have been robbers, now become knights.

Let those who have been fighting against their brothers and relatives now fight in a proper way against the barbarians.

Let those who have been serving as mercenaries for small pay now obtain the eternal reward.

Let those who have been serving as mercenaries for small pay now obtain the eternal reward.

All who die by the way, whether by land or by sea, or in battle against the pagans, shall have immediate remission of sins. This I grant them through the power of God with which I am invested.

All who die by the way, whether by land or by sea, or in battle against the pagans, shall have immediate remission of sins. This I grant them through the power of God with which I am invested.

For if He, shall find worms, that is, sins, In them, because you have been negligent in your duty, He will command them as worthless to be thrown into the abyss of unclean things.

For if He, shall find worms, that is, sins, In them, because you have been negligent in your duty, He will command them as worthless to be thrown into the abyss of unclean things.

What shall I say of the appalling violation of women, of which it is more evil to speak than to keep silent?

What shall I say of the appalling violation of women, of which it is more evil to speak than to keep silent?

You are called shepherds; see that you do not act as hirelings. But be true shepherds, with your crooks always in your hands. Do not go to sleep, but guard on all sides the flock committed to you. For if through your carelessness or negligence a wolf…

You are called shepherds; see that you do not act as hirelings. But be true shepherds, with your crooks always in your hands. Do not go to sleep, but guard on all sides the flock committed to you. For if through your carelessness or negligence a wolf…

Let no attachment to your native soil be an impediment, because…all the world is exile to the Christian, and all the world his country: thus exile is his country, and his country exile.

Let no attachment to your native soil be an impediment, because…all the world is exile to the Christian, and all the world his country: thus exile is his country, and his country exile.

Let those who have been exhausting themselves to the detriment both of body and soul now strive for a twofold reward.

Let those who have been exhausting themselves to the detriment both of body and soul now strive for a twofold reward.

Oh, how admirable is that salting! Truly, you must strive by the salt of wisdom to correct these foolish people, hastening open-mouthed after the pleasures of this world, lest putrefied by sins and unsalted, they may be a stench in the nostrils when …

Oh, how admirable is that salting! Truly, you must strive by the salt of wisdom to correct these foolish people, hastening open-mouthed after the pleasures of this world, lest putrefied by sins and unsalted, they may be a stench in the nostrils when …

Gird yourselves, everyone of you, I say, and be valiant sons; for it is better for you to die in battle than to behold, the sorrows of your race and of your holy places. Let neither property nor the alluring charms of your wives entice you frol going…