Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.

For where I found Truth, there found I my God, the Truth itself; which since I learnt, I have not forgotten.

The flesh does not by its own virtue purify, but is purified by virtue of the Word by which it was assumed, when 'the Word became flesh and dwelt among us' (Jn. 1:14).

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

The human race is inquisitive about other people's lives, but negligent to correct their own.

O Master, make me chaste, but not yet!

God grants us not always what we ask so as to bestow something preferable.