"Examine yourself to see whether you have within……" — Theophan the Recluse
"Examine yourself to see whether you have within you a strong sense of your own self importance, or negatively, whether you have failed to realize that you are nothing. This feeling of self-importance is deeply hidden, but it controls the whole of our life. Its first demand is that everything should be as we wish it, and as soon as this is not so we complain to God and are annoyed with people."
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Theophan the Recluse
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8 Quotes by Theophan the Recluse
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