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When life was worrying about a car payment or a rent payment and a bill, you're so consumed with that, you really don't have time to know yourself. That's surviving and getting by.

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John Cassian

It is impossible for the mind to remain undisturbed by thoughts, but anyone serious about the matter can certainly permit them entry or drive them away, and although their origin does not lie entirely under our control we can choose to approve of them and to adopt them.

Approve, Christian, Lie, Lying, Mind, Undisturbed
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. . . whoever is guided solely by his own judgment and decision will never climb up to the summit of perfection and will not fail to be the victim of the devil's ruinous power to delude.

Christian, Climb, Failure, Guided, Power, Solely

. . . we should realize that there are three sources for our thoughts - God, the devil, and ourselves.

Christian, Devil, God, Thoughts, Three

The bond between friends cannot be broken by chance; no interval of time or space can destroy it. Not even death itself can part true friends.

Broken, Chance, Space, True, True Friend

Fasts and vigils, the study of Scripture, renouncing possessions and everything worldly are not in themselves perfection, as we have said; theyare its tools. For perfection is not to be found in them; it is acquired through them. It is useless, therefore, to boast of our fasting, vigils, poverty, and reading of Scripture when we have not achieved the love of God and our fellow men. Whoever has achieved love has God within himself and his intellect is always with God.

Acquired, Christian, Everything, Men, Reading

If you wish to attain to true knowledge of the Scriptures, hasten to acquire first an unshakeable humility of heart. That alone will lead you, not to the knowledge that puffs up, but to that which enlightens, by the perfecting of love.

Acquire, Attain, Heart, Humility, Knowledge, Spiritual
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