The likeness of Your Church, O Lord, is that woman who went behind and touched the hem of Your garment, saying within herself: 'If I do but touch His garment I shall be whole' (Mt. 9:21). So the Church confesses her wounds, but desires to be healed.

It is easier to look wise than to talk wisely.

As in paradise, God walks in the Holy Scriptures, seeking man.

God drove Cain out of his presence and sent him into exile far away from his native land, so that he passed from a life of human kindness to one which was more akin to the rude existence of a wild beast.

True repentance is to cease from sin.

Love is like a shadow, one can only catch it by falling into it.

May each one of us glorify the Lord with the soul of Mary and rejoice in God with the spirit of Mary