Fasting of the body is food for the soul.

There is nothing colder than a Christian who does not seek to save others.

Let no one mourn that he has fallen again and again; for forgiveness has risen from the grave.

We pray not to inform God or instruct Him but to beseech Him closely, to be made intimate with Him, by continuance in supplication; to be humbled; to be reminded of our sins.

Before they committed the crime of crimes, before they killed their Master, before the cross, before the slaying of Christ, [Jewish sacrifices were] an abomination.

Prayer is an all-efficient panoply, a treasure undiminished, a mine which is never exhausted, a sky unobscured by clouds, a heaven unruffled by the storm. It is the root, the fountain, the mother of a thousand blessings.

As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man.