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"The Kingdom of God will not be brought to fulfillment on earth by one great, sword-swinging battle against the powers of darkness, but only by each of us laboring and suffering day after day as Christ labored and suffered, until all things at last have been transformed."

"There is a strain in Christian asceticism that tends to despise the body, looking upon it as the source of corruption. And I think it is wrong. It is Gnosticism and Manichaeism and every heretical tendency that sees matter as evil... Truly, man is a creature composed of body and soul, and we work out our salvation in the vale of tears through the medium of flesh. It is the first gift God and our parents fashion us."

"It is a mistake easily made by every man, saint or scholar, Church leader or day laborer. Ultimately, we come to expect God to accept our understanding of what His will ought to be and help us fulfill that, instead of learning to see and accept His will in the real situations in which He places us daily."