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2020-08-27 15:04:21 UTC
"Knowledge comes like light from the sun. The foolish man through lack of
faith or laziness deliberately closes his eyes - that is, his faculty of
choice - and at once consigns the knowledge to oblivion because in his
indolence he fails to put it into practice. For folly leads to indolence,
and this in turn begets inertia and hence forgetfulness. Forgetfulness
breeds self-love - the love of one's own will and thoughts which is
equivalent to the love of pleasure and praise. From self-love comes
avarice, the root of all evils (cf. 1 Tim. 6:10), for it entangles us in
worldly concerns and in this way leads to complete unawareness of God's
gifts and of our own faults."
St. Peter of Damaskos.
"We love Him because He first loved us." 1 John 4:19
Draw nigh unto God and He will draw nigh unto you.
faith or laziness deliberately closes his eyes - that is, his faculty of
choice - and at once consigns the knowledge to oblivion because in his
indolence he fails to put it into practice. For folly leads to indolence,
and this in turn begets inertia and hence forgetfulness. Forgetfulness
breeds self-love - the love of one's own will and thoughts which is
equivalent to the love of pleasure and praise. From self-love comes
avarice, the root of all evils (cf. 1 Tim. 6:10), for it entangles us in
worldly concerns and in this way leads to complete unawareness of God's
gifts and of our own faults."
St. Peter of Damaskos.
"We love Him because He first loved us." 1 John 4:19
Draw nigh unto God and He will draw nigh unto you.