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- All of our holy fathers knew this and all with one accord teach that perfection in holiness can be achieved only through humility.
- Humility, in its turn, can be achieved only through faith, fear of God, gentleness and the shedding of all possessions.
- It is by means of these that we attain perfect love, through the grace and compassion of our Lord Jesus Christ, to whom be glory…
- Actually, all gifts have been given for reasons of temporal use and need and they will surely pass away at the end of the present…
- ...just as the edifice of all the virtues strives upward toward perfect prayer so will all these virtues be neither sturdy nor enduring unless they…
- Perfection... is clearly not achieved simply by being naked, by the lack of wealth or by the rejection of honors, unless there is also that…
- Men seized of the urge to have a knowledge of God and to be pure in mind devote all their gathered energies to this one…
- The second request of the very pure soul is to see the coming of the Father's kingdom (cf. Mt. 6:10). What this means first of…
- When the soul is solidly rooted in... peacefulness, when it is freed of the bonds of every carnal urge, when the unshaking thrust of the…
- [God] arranged that the boy Samuel should be chosen but instead of teaching him directly He had him, turn once or twice to an old…
- If the kingdom of God is within us and that is a kingdom of justice, of peace, and of joy then whoever remains with these…
- Everything we do, our every objective, must be undertaken for the sake of... purity of heart... we must practice the reading of the Scripture, together…
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- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
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