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From the sayings of StSyncletica about Tolerating Insults and Trials

From the sayings of StSyncletica about Tolerating Insults and Trials

 

"Those who are great athletes must contend against stronger 
enemies."

"We must arm ourselves in every way against the demons.  For they 
attack us from outside, and they also stir us up from within; and the soul is then like 
a ship when great waves break over it, and at the same time it sinks because the 
hold is too full.  We are just like that: we lose as much by the exterior faults we 
commit as by the thoughts inside us.  So we must watch for the attacks from people 
that come from outside us, and also repel the interior onslaughts of our thoughts."