"In proportion as the ardor of divine love……" — John Cassian
"In proportion as the ardor of divine love brings you nearer to God, so will a larger concourse of saintly brethren flock to you. For, as the Lord says, 'A city set on a hill cannot be hid' (Mt. 5:14)."
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John Cassian
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43 Quotes by John Cassian
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The thief who received the kingdom of heaven, though not as the reward of virtue, is a true witness to…
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All of our holy fathers knew this and all with one accord teach that perfection in holiness can be achieved…
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Humility, in its turn, can be achieved only through faith, fear of God, gentleness and the shedding of all possessions.
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It is by means of these that we attain perfect love, through the grace and compassion of our Lord Jesus…
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No other virtue makes man more equal to the angels, than the imitation of their way of life.
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God can be sensed when we gaze with trembling hearts at that power of his which controls, guides, and rules…
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The Doctor of our souls has placed the remedy in the hidden regions of the soul.
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If you wish to attain to true knowledge of the Scriptures, hasten to acquire first an unshakeable humility of heart.…
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The bond between friends cannot be broken by chance; no interval of time or space can destroy it. Not even…
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We are often indifferent to our brethren who are distressed or upset, on the grounds that they are in this…
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Actually, all gifts have been given for reasons of temporal use and need and they will surely pass away at…
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...just as the edifice of all the virtues strives upward toward perfect prayer so will all these virtues be neither…
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Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed…
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
— Abigail Adams
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Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young.
— Emile M. Cioran
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It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Speaking one day to Monsieur de Buffon, on the present ardor of chemical inquiry, he affected to consider chemistry but…
— Thomas Jefferson
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How little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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To wait so long/And want a man refined and strong/Is not at all uncommon. And yet to wait one hundred…
— Charles Perrault
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Consider love: is there a nobler outpouring, a rapture less suspect? Its shudders rival music, compete with the tears of…
— Emile M. Cioran
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Among absent lovers, ardor always fares better.
— Propertius
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Tyranny brings ignorance and brutality with it. It degrades men from their just rank into the class of brutes; it…
— Jonathan Mayhew
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We should measure affection, not like youngsters by the ardor of its passion, but by its strength and constancy.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Youth is a beautiful dream, on whose brightness books shed a blinding dust. Will ever the day come when the…
— Khalil Gibran
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