For the more you are an enemy to your friend’s crimes, the more truly you are a friend to that person. (Letter 151, 12).
Let us love human beings, but not in the way a glutton says, “I love thrushes [birds].” Do you know why he loves them? To kill them and to eat them. He doesn’t love the thrushes, but rather he loves them for his own gain and their loss. (Treatise on the First Letter of St John, 8).
Love your fellow human beings, but fight their errors. Teach them the truth, but without pride. Love fights with them for the truth, but without resentments. (Reply to the Letters of Petilian, 1, 29, 31).
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