Never confuse the person, formed in the image of God, with the evil that is in him: because evil is but a chance misfortune, an illness, a devilish attack. But the very essence of the person is the image of God, and this remains in him despite every disfigurement.
St. John of Kronstadt
Strive as well as you can to enter deeply with the heart into the church reading and singing and to imprint these on the tablets of the heart.