Friendship after the flesh is very easily destroyed on some slight pretext, since it is not held firm by spiritual perception. But when a person is s…

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All of us who are human beings are in the image of God. But to be in his likeness belongs only to those who by great love have attached their freedom…

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Ideas of value always shun verbosity, being foreign to confusion and fantasy. Timely silence, then, is precious, for it is nothing less than the moth…

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When a man begins to perceive the love of God in all its richness, he begins also to love his neighbor with spiritual perception. This is the love of…

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At the beginning of the struggle the holy commandments of God must be fulfilled with a certain forcefulness of will (cf. Mt. 11:12); then the Lord, s…

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Only the Holy Spirit can purify the intellect, for unless a greater power comes and overthrows the despoiler, what he has taken captive will never be…

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It is well known that obedience is the chief among the initiatory virtues, for first it displaces presumption and then it engenders humility within u…

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The reason that we have both good and wicked thoughts together is not, as some suppose, because the Holy Spirit and the devil dwell together in our i…

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