For so it is, O Lord my God, I measure it! But what it is I measure, I do not know.

Believe that others are better than you in the debths of their soul, although outwardly you may appear better than they.

Though in the order of nature angels rank above men, yet, by scale of justice, good men are of greater value than bad angels.

The one who is our very Life descended into our world, and bore our death, and slew it with the abundance of His own life. Thundering, He called out to us to return to Him in heaven.

And I will ask the Father, and He shall give you another Paraclete, seeing He saith this of the Holy Spirit, Whom except we have, we can neither love God, nor keep His commandments?

We take for granted the slow miracle whereby water in the irrigation of a vineyard becomes wine. It is only when Christ turns water into wine, in a quick motion, as it were, that we stand amazed.

The Devil invented gambling.