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"God will not forget even the saliva that has dried in your mouth as a result of fasting....humble yourself in all things, hold back your word even if you understand the whole affair....joyfully put up with every trial. For if you knew the honor that results from trials you would not pray to be delivered from them." Pachomius on Psalm 62-We should pray for strength, not deliverance. Maybe even joy? That's hard to do.
— Feb 19, 2025 07:02PM
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Joseph R.
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"For glory is like the human shadow: if you follow it, it runs away; if you run away, it follows. Always value yourself least of all and remember, whenever any good befalls you throughout your life, ascribe it all to God who gave it, not to yourself who received it." Exhortation to Humility 8 by Martin of Braga
— Sep 10, 2025 04:55AM
Joseph R.
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From the commentary on Psalm 105, about slavery: "So the psalmist beautifully says, 'Joseph had been sold into slavery. They had bound his feet with fetters.' 'He had been sold into slavery,' he says; he did not become a slave. They had bound his feet, but not his soul." Letter 53 by Ambrose, p. 245
— Jul 25, 2025 06:56PM
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"(Jesus) took a body capable of suffering, and with the body a human soul. Both of these he kept unstained from the defilements of sin and gave his soul for the sake of the souls that had sinned and his body for the sake of the bodies that had died. And since the body that was assumed is described as the body of the very only-begotten Son of God, he refers the passion of the body to himself." Theodoret of Cyr
— Jul 17, 2025 10:10AM
