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""Our passions grow fiercer when left idle through lack of contact with other people. Even that shadow of patience and long-suffering which we thought we possessed while we mixed with our brethren is lost in our isolation through not being exercised. Poisonous creatures...in the desert display their fury only when they detect someone approaching; and likewise passion-filled men..."
- John Cassian, Institutes" — Sep 17, 2025 07:46PM
""Our passions grow fiercer when left idle through lack of contact with other people. Even that shadow of patience and long-suffering which we thought we possessed while we mixed with our brethren is lost in our isolation through not being exercised. Poisonous creatures...in the desert display their fury only when they detect someone approaching; and likewise passion-filled men..."
- John Cassian, Institutes" — Sep 17, 2025 07:46PM
“People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.”
― As I Lay Dying
― As I Lay Dying
“Everything possible to be believed is an image of truth.”
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
“This world is just a little place, just the red in the sky, before the sun rises, so let us keep fast hold of hands, that when the birds begin, none of us be missing.”
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“Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience.”
― The Experience of God : Being, Consciousness, Bliss
― The Experience of God : Being, Consciousness, Bliss
“Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
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