“Why I want you to devote yourselves more to the study of the
Old and New Testament and to the hymns and poetic canons. Read the Church Fathers with the same zeal that you would read the hymns and the poetic canons, but first of all read Holy Scripture. Read the Gospel and the Old Testament. This is the treasure-house, because all the Fathers drew on this wealth. It is the source and the foundation. It is inexhaustible and you can never weary of it. You will undoubtedly feel too what the Psalmist says: Your words are above honey to my mouth. He doesn’t say ‘like honey’, but ‘above honey to my mouth’, in order to indicate the exceptional sweetness of the words of God.”
– ‘Wounded by Love’