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To harbor no envy, no anger, no resentment against an offender is still not to have charity for him. It is possible,…
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Only wonder can comprehend His incomprehensible power.
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Theology without practice is the theology of demons
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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…
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But I say to you, the Lord says, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, pray for those who…
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Those who, animal-like, live solely according to the senses... misuse God's creation in order to indulge the passions. They do not understand…
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When like the patriarchs we learn to dig wells of virtue and spiritual knowledge within ourselves by means of ascetic practice and…
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If you expound the teaching of the Logos from the standpoint of the moral life, using materialistic words and examples which correspond…
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When we think of the height of God's infinity we should not despair of His compassion reaching us from such a height;…
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Those who seek the Lord should not look for Him outside themselves; on the contrary, they must seek Him within themselves through…
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Whatever a man loves he inevitably clings to, and in order not to lose it he rejects everything that keeps him from…
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He who busies himself with the sins of others, or judges his brother on suspicion, has not yet even begun to repent…
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Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.
— Walter Benjamin
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Every passion has its destiny.
— Billy Mills
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Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood.…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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This was Shakespeare's form ; Who walk'd in every path of human life, Felt every passion ; and to all mankind Doth…
— Mark Akenside
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Authority and place demonstrate and try the tempers of men, by moving every passion and discovering every frailty.
— Plutarch
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The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Whatever a man loves he inevitably clings to, and in order not to lose it he rejects everything that keeps him from…
— Maximus the Confessor
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There is no stronger test of a person's character than power and authority, exciting as they do every passion, and discovering every…
— Plutarch
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Almost all men are born with every passion to some extent, but there is hardly a man who has not a dominant…
— Lord Chesterfield
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No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our…
— Bernard de Mandeville
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There was an air of indifference about them, a calm produced by the gratification of every passion; and through their manners were…
— Gustave Flaubert
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Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.
— Joseph Conrad
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