Saturday, July 23, 2011

Abba Sisoes on "whether there is a punishment for men"

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"Three old men came to see Abba Sisoes, having heard about him.  The first said to him, 'Father, how shall I save myself from the r...

It's the office, stupid

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"in Lumen gentium , the church’s self-definition in the Second Vatican Council, introduced in a council document the charismatic chur...
Wednesday, July 20, 2011

"no more than a very good Deist"

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"[William Wake's] last French interlocutor, the  génovéfain P.-F. Le Courayer, distraut, preferred to rally to a reductive Anglica...
Monday, July 18, 2011

"a teacher who does not transmit the two Testaments in their unity is a murderer of souls."

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"Duo uero ubera propterea dixit quoniam hic qui se doctorem profitetur, et animarum nutritorem, nisi de utroque testamento docuer...
Saturday, July 16, 2011

"'If you will, you can become all flame.'"

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"Abba Lot went to see Abba Joseph and said to him, 'Abba, as far as I can I say my little office, I fast a little, I pray and medit...
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"'We have put the light burden on one side, that is to say, self-accusation, and we have loaded ourselves with a heavy one, that is to say, self-justification.'"

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Abba John the Dwarf 21 ( PG 65, col. 212 ).  This one doesn't appear in the Collection syst ématique (SC 387, 474, and 498), or, at leas...

"'God sells righteousness at a very low price to those who wish to buy it: a little piece of bread, a cloak of no value, a cup of cold water, a mite.'"

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Abba Epiphanius, Bishop of Cyprus 16 ( PG 65, col. 168 ).  This one doesn't appear in the Collection syst ématique (SC 387, 474, and 498...