A Message for Overcoming Sin
ALL VICES, once cast down, fade in their strength and are more readily blocked and slipped in subsequent entanglements. But vainglory, when thrown, surges back with fiercer vigor to the grapple; thought vanquished, from its feint it rallies alive, redoubling might. Such is the subtle guile of the enemy who turns the soldier of Christ’s own prowess against him, felling by the soldier’s own valor when direct assault may not prevail. St. John Cassian, The [...]
A Message for Overcoming Sin
. ONE WHO DESIRES to process the King’s Highway by means of the arms of righteousness must pass through glory and ignobility, infamy and good reputation (2 Cor. 6:7, 8), and with such caution as if he deviates ever so little to the right or left, he shall be dashed upon the pernicious of crags. For where the devil cannot cast down by honour, he subplants by humility. If he cannot extol by the adornment [...]