Tuesday in Holy Week

"Love the sinners but reject their works. Do not despise them because of their shortcomings, lest you be tempted by the same. Remember that you share in the stink of Adam and that you are clad with his illness. To him who needs passionate prayer and soft words, do not give blame instead, lest you cause his destruction and his soul be demanded from your hand. Resemble the physician who use cold medicines against symptoms of fever" (from The Mystical Treatises of Isaac of Niniveh, Homily 5, 79).