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“Friendship begins in the family, with your spouse and children and extends from there to strangers. But who, in fact, is a stranger? All human beings share a common parentage. Do you fail to recognize that person? There's a human being there! Are you dealing with an an adversary? There's a human being there! With an enemy? There's a human being there, too! Let a friend remain a friend and turn an enemy into a friend.”
― Augustine of Hippo

“The Abbot Moses replied: '....Humility is therefore indispensable for acquiring true judgment, that is to say, for saving us from the danger of exaggeration in one direction or the other.”
― John Cassian, Drinking from the Hidden Fountain: A Patristic Breviary. Ancient Wisdom for Today's World (Cistercian Studies Series)

“...the wife is no longer the owner of her own body: she is the slave, and at the same time the owner, of her husband. If you try to escape from this slaver, says Paul, you offend the Lord. The Apostle speaks here of 'rights' because he wants it to be clear that neither spouse can freely do as he or she chooses but one is the slave of the other.”
― John Chrysostom

“If anyone claims to be able to be completely self-sufficient, to be capable of reaching perfection without anyone else's help, to succeed in plumbing the depths of scripture entirely unaided, he is behaving just like someone trying to practise the trade of a carpenter without touching wood.”
― Basil the Great, Drinking from the Hidden Fountain: A Patristic Breviary. Ancient Wisdom for Today's World (Cistercian Studies Series)