St. Polycarp of Smyrna: Faith is the Mother of us all

 Faith is the mother of us all; it is the well-spring of hope and it is preceded by love of God, of Christ and of neighbor. Whoever dwells in these virtues has fulfilled the precepts of Righteousness, for whoever has charity is far from all sin.

+St. Polycarp of Smyrna, from Epistle to the Philippians, in Ante Nicene Fathers volume 1.

St. Polycarp of Smyrna: Exhortation to the practice of Virtue

 Follow the example of the Lord, being firm and unchangeable in the faith, loving the brotherhood, (cf  1Peter 2:17) and being attached to one another, joined together in the truth, exhibiting the meekness of the Lord in your intercourse with one another, and despising no one. When you can do good, defer it not, because "alms deliver from death" (Tobit 4:10, 12:9). Be all of you subject to one another, (cf 1 Peter 5:5), "having your conduct blameless among the Gentiles", (1 Peter 2:12) that ye may both receive praise for your good works, and the Lord may not be blasphemed through you. But woe to him by whom the name of the Lord is blasphemed! (Isa 52:5) Teach, therefore, sobriety to all, and manifest it also in your own conduct.

+St. Polycarp of Smyrna, from The Epistle of Polycarp, chapter X, in Ante-Nicene Fathers volume 1.