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Through the Holy Spirit comes our. . .

Through the Holy Spirit comes our restoration to paradise, our ascension into the kingdom of heaven, our return to the adoption of sons, our liberty to call God our Father, our being made partakers of the grace of Christ, our being called children of light, our sharing in eternal glory, and, in a word, our being brought into a state of all “fulness of blessing,” both in this world and in the world to come, of all the good gifts that are in store for us, by promise hereof, through faith, beholding the reflection of their grace as though they were already present, we await the full enjoyment.”

+ St. Basil the Great, “On the Holy Spirit”

God drove Cain out of. . .

God drove Cain out of his presence and sent him into exile far away from his native land, so that he passed from a life of human kindness to one which was more akin to the rude existence of a wild beast.

-Saint Ambrose of Milan

 

Scripture brought me to. . .

“Scripture brought me to the Gate of Paradise, and the mind stood in wonder as it entered.”

— Ephrem the Syrian