If you wish to achieve true knowledge of Scripture, you must hurry to achieve unshakable humility of heart.
This is what will lead you not to the knowledge that puffs a person up (1 Cor 8:1)
but to the love which illuminates through the achievement of love.
John Cassian
The heretics, who, by rehearsing and exaggerating the sins of many in the Church,
as if either all or the majority among themselves were righteous,
strive to turn and snatch us away from the breasts of the one True Mother Church
St. Augustine, Commentary on the Psalms, Psalm 11
“Today, when you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion”
(Hebrews 3:7 & 15; Psalm 94:8, Septuagint)
“How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace,
who bring glad tidings of good things!”
(Rom 10:15)
Playing ball depends not only on one throwing the ball skillfully,
but also on one catching it easily.
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For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching,
but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own likings,
and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander into myths.
(2 Tim 4:3-4, RSV)
“And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived, fell into transgression.”
1 Timothy 2:14
For since, as the apostle tells us, “the woman being deceived, fell into transgression,”
and was by her disobedience foremost in the revolt from God,
for this reason she is the […]
“Now may the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God and into the patience of Christ.”
(2 Thess 3:5)
We are convinced that action taken by one or two pious men is done through the counsel of the Spirit.
Since there is no human motive placed […]