John Cassian Quotes

“Live in the flesh but not according to the flesh.”
― John Cassian, John Cassian: Conferences

“when we gaze in unbounded admiration on that ineffable mercy of His, which with unwearied patience endures countless sins which are every moment being committed under His very eyes, or the call with which from no antecedent merits of ours, but by the free grace of His pity He receives us;”
― John Cassian, Conferences of John Cassian - Enhanced Version

“For we not only discover God by admiring His incomprehensible essence, a thing which still lies hid in the hope of the promise, but we see Him through the greatness of His creation, and the consideration of His justice, and the aid of His daily providence:”
― John Cassian, Conferences of John Cassian - Enhanced Version

“leads to vice under the appearance of virtue and brings us to a bad end by deceiving us either with immoderate and inappropriate fasting or severe vigils or inordinate praying or excessive reading.”
― Boniface Ramsey, John Cassian: The Conferences