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One who knows oneself, knows. . .

“One who knows oneself, knows God: and one who knows God is worthy to worship Him as is right. Therefore, my beloveds in the Lord, know yourselves.”

— St. Anthony the Great

No one is good but. . .

No one is good but God alone. What is good is therefore divine, what is divine is therefore good.

-Saint Ambrose of Milan

St. Ephraim the Syrian: Imagine that someone, while standing before a king . . .

“Imagine that someone, while standing before a king and conversing with him, at the summons of a servant like unto himself leaves the king and begins to converse with that servant; such also is he who engages in conversation and gives himself over to distraction during the divine service.”

— St. Ephraim the Syrian