My forefathers are dead and rest, no one knows where. But our Mother the Church, who has embraced generation after generation of my people, still stands as a bride in white, eternally young, with the same open gates. —Rt. Rev. Bo Giertz

He stayed in the upper room as a kneading-bowl,
that he might leaven the dough of our body.
He kneaded our body with his leaven that it might not taste of death,
and he seasoned it with the salt of his divinity that the serpent might be blinded.- Cyrilona

The foxes rooted among the vinestems,
but one alone withered;
the porcupine,
whose raiment is spines,
assaulted that vine;
it took possession of one wild grape,
but the (good) grapes it did not harm.
Zion, the evil porcupine, prevailed over Iscariot;
for thirty pieces of silver it seized the sweetness that had been promised to it - Cyrilona

Thou hast mercy upon all, O Lord, and abhorrest nothing which thou hast made, and winkest at the sins of men, because they should amend, and sparest them: for thou art the Lord our God.

All dogs go to Heaven

God useth these temptations [of Satan] for the advancing of the whole work of grace in the heart. One spot occasions the whole garment to be washed. David overcome with one sin, renews his repentance for all [sin] (Psalm 51). — Fr. William Gurnall