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Title: Quote for the Day: Impossible to Rid Ourselves of Evil Without Post by: Shin on February 15, 2011, 06:47:59 AM 'Without contrition of the heart, it is altogether impossible to rid ourselves of evil. Now the heart is made contrite by threefold self-control: in sleep, in food and in bodily relaxation. For excess of these three things leads to self-indulgence; and this in turn makes us accept evil thoughts, and is opposed to prayer and to appropriate work.'
St. Mark the Ascetic |