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From the sayings of Saint John Cassian about TOLERATING INSULTS AND TRIALS

From the sayings of Saint John Cassian about TOLERATING INSULTS AND TRIALS

“If our purpose is to fight the spiritual fight and to defeat, with God’s help, the demons of malice, we should take every care to guard our hearts from the demon of dejection.  Just as a moth devours clothing and a worm devours wood, so dejection devours a man’s soul.”

“If you want to correct your brother when he is doing wrong, you must keep yourself calm; otherwise you yourself may catch the sickness you are seeking to cure and you may find that the words of the Gospel now apply to you, ‘Why do you look at the speck of dust in your brother’s eye, and not notice the rafter in your own eye?'”