The entire life of a good Christian is in fact an exercise of holy desire. You do not yet see what you long for, but the very act of desiring prepares you, so that when he comes you may see and be utterly satisfied.

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

Love is ever new because it never groweth old.

Where love is, what can be wanting? Where it is not, what can possibly be profitable?

The one who sings, prays twice.

Man's maker was made man that He, Ruler of the stars, might nurse at His mother's breast; that the Bread might hunger, the Fountain thirst, the Light sleep, the Way be tired on its journey; that Truth might be accused of false witnesses, the Teacher be beaten with whips, the Foundation be suspended on wood; that Strength might grow weak; that the Healer might be wounded; that Life might die.

The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.