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Virtue Quotes by John Climacus
- An angel fell from Heaven without any other passion except pride, and so we may ask whether it is possible to ascend to Heaven by…
- It can happen that when we are at prayer some brothers come to see us. Then we have to choose either to interrupt our prayer…
- The offspring of virtue is perseverance. The fruit and offspring of perseverance is habit and child of habit is character.
- Even though one is well advanced in virtue, should he stop mortifying himself, he soon would lose his modesty and virtue - just as fertile…
- Humility is the only virtue that no devil can imitate. If pride made demons out of angels, there is no doubt that humility could make…
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- Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe