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- God, Who is by nature good and dispassionate, loves all men equally as His handiwork. But He glorifies the virtuous man because in his will…
- But I say to you, the Lord says, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, pray for those who persecute you. Why…
- Those who, animal-like, live solely according to the senses... misuse God's creation in order to indulge the passions. They do not understand the principle of…
- He who asks to receive his daily bread does not automatically receive it in its fullness as it is in itself: he receives it according…
- For him who is perfect in love and has reached the summit of dispassion there is no difference between his own or another's, or between…
- Many have said much about love, but you will find love itself only if you seek it among the disciples of Christ. For only they…
- He has as yet no perfect love, whose disposition towards men depends on what they are like, loving one and despising another for this or…
- If... Adam had trusted in God and been nourished from the tree of life (Gn. 2:9)? he would not have set aside the immortality that…
- ... for our sake loosing within Himself the bonds of bodily birth, He granted us through spiritual birth, according to our own volition, power to…
- When a man's intellect is constantly with God, his desire grows beyond all measure into an intense longing for God and his incensiveness is completely…
- By His gracious condescension God became man and is called man for the sake of man and by exchanging His condition for ours revealed the…
- We must not only put bodily passions to death but also destroy the soul's impassioned thoughts. Hence the Psalmist says, 'Early in the morning I…
- He who devoutly strives to attain wisdom and is on his guard against the invisible powers, should pray that both natural discrimination - whose light…
- In all our actions, God considers the intention: whether we act for Him or for some other motive.
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