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THE NOUS OF THE SOUL IS STRONG WHEN THE PLEASURES OF THE BODY ARE WEAK

14 Dec 2024

> [St. Anthony said] that it was more fitting for young men to hold to the
> ascetic life with zeal and not to seek things that enervate the body, but
> rather to accustom it to labors, bearing in mind the apostle's words, "When I
> am weak, then I am strong." For he used to say that the nous of the soul is
> strong when the pleasures of the body are weak....
> 
> For a man's whole life is very short when measured by the ages to come; all
> our time is nothing compared to eternal life. In the world everything is sold
> at its value and an item is exchanged for its equivalent, but the promise of
> eternal life is bought for a trifle....

St. Athanasius the Great of Alexandria, Saint Anthony the Great, trans. Saint
Anthony’s Greek Orthodox Monastery (Florence, AZ: Saint Anthony’s Greek Orthodox
Monastery Press, 2019), 12, 21.


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BONHOEFFER ON INFALLIBILITY

11 Aug 2024

> Be it an infallible church, Book or Doctrine, all these assume that there is a
> spot in the world which is not fallen and thus exempt from sinfulness. But the
> only part of the world free from Sin and its positive correlative is Christ
> Jesus… and He alone is the ultimate authority....

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich. London, 1933-1935. Translated by Keith W. Clements. Vol.
13, Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2007.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The quote is from student notes on a lecture Bonhoeffer gave on Karl Barth’s
theology. I encountered it in Wartick, J.W. "Bonhoeffer on an infallible (or
inerrant) church, book, or doctrine." Reconstructing Faith blog. July 29, 2024.
Retrieved from https://jwwartick.com/2024/07/29/bonhoeffer-infallible/.

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CHRIST IS THE ONLY EXIT FROM THIS WORLD

26 Jan 2024

> Christ is the only exit from this world; all other exits—sexual rapture,
> political utopia, economic independence—are but blind alleys in which rot the
> corpses of the many that have tried them.

Fr. Seraphim Rose, journal entry dated February 3, 1961. From Hieromonk
Damascene, Father Seraphim Rose: His Life and Works (St. Herman of Alaska
Brotherhood, 2003), 95.

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SELF-EXAMINATION AND WEEPING WILLINGLY

17 Jan 2024

> The saint of God[, St. Agathon,] constantly and strictly attended to himself
> and said that without intense self-examination, no person can achieve success.
> This is the path to salvation. The saints of God, who constantly examined
> themselves, constantly found within themselves new failing, and once they
> found them, they plunged ever deeper into repentance that purified them and
> prepared them for heaven. On the contrary, evil inattentiveness and busyness
> are always connected with a profound ignorance concerning oneself; not
> surprisingly, such self-ignorance is always very self-satisfied and proud of
> itself. "Many delude themselves," said Blessed Theophylact, "with vain hope,
> thinking that they will receive the kingdom of heaven, and they in advance add
> themselves to the ranks of those who rose up because of their virtue,
> imagining great things about themselves.... Many are called, because God calls
> many, even all, but there are few chosen, few who are saved, few who are
> worthy of being chosen by God. To call is God's work, but to be chosen is
> ours: the Jews were called, but were not chosen, for they were not obedient to
> the One Who called.
> 
> St. Arsenius, who was great among monks, during the entire course of his life,
> whenever he did manual labor, put a kerchief on his knees because of the
> amount of tears that fell from his eyes. He died. Abba Pœmen, a father who was
> gifted with unusually profound spiritual discernment, said upon hearing of
> this man's death, "You are blessed, Arsenius, for you wept for yourself during
> this life. Whoever does not weep for himself here will weep eternally. It is
> impossible to run away from weeping. Either you weep here willingly, or you
> will weep there unwillingly, in tortures." Hearing of this death, Patriarch
> Theophilus of Alexandria said, "Blessed are you, Abba Arsenius! You constantly
> remembered the hour of your own death."

St. Ignatius Brianchaninov, "A Homily on Death" in The Threshold: Trials at the
Crossroads of Eternity, trans. Nicholas Kotar, The Collected Works of St
Ignatius (Brianchaninov), vol. 3 (Jordanville: Holy Trinity Publications, 2023),
88.

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