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Happy is the monk who considers all men as god — after God.
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Agape is the progeny of apatheia. Apatheia is the very flower of ascesis. Ascesis consists in keeping the commandments. The custodian of those commandments is the fear of God which is in turn the offspring of true faith. Now faith is an interior an interior good, one which is to be found even in those who do not yet believe in God.
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Happy is the spirit which, praying with distraction, goes on increasing its desire for God.
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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
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Evagrius Ponticus
Born:
345
Died:
399
(aged 54)
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