It is precisely our egoism, our self-centeredness and self-love that cause all our difficulties, our lack of freedom … - Tito Colliander

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I don't know, I think the crowds are even more responsive now because the audiences are skewing younger.

Tito Colliander

It is precisely our egoism, our self-centeredness and self-love that cause all our difficulties, our lack of freedom in suffering, our disappointments and our anguish of soul and body.

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We notice the person who is for ever bowing and fussily servile, and perhaps say, How humble he is! But the truly humble person escapes notice: the world does not know him.

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There are three kinds of nature in man, as Nicetas Stethatos further explains: the carnal man, who wants to live for his own pleasure, even if it harms others; the natural man, who wants to please both himself and others; and the spiritual man, who wants to please only God, even if it harms himself. The first is lower than human nature, the second is normal, the third is above nature; it is life in Christ.

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It begins here, and has no end, and no earthly power can coerce it; and it is to be found in the human heart.

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However weighed down and entangled in earthly fetters you may be, it can never be too late.

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You must learn to follow privately the Lord's bidding: not to speak empty words, not to adorn yourself, always to obey authority, not to look at a woman with desire, not to be angry and much else.

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I don't know, I think the crowds are even more responsive now because the audiences are skewing younger.

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