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The Doctor of our souls has. . .

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“The Doctor of our souls has placed the remedy in the hidden regions of the soul.”

+ St. John Cassian,  The Philokalia: The Complete Text (Vol. 1), “On the Eight Vices: On the Demon of Unchasity and the Desire of the Flesh”

We make ourselves a. . .

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We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot

— St. Augustine of Hippo