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If you want the Lord to hide your sins, then don't talk to people about what kind of virtues you have. For as we relate to our virtues, so God relates to our sins.

Marcus Eremita

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When you have been insulted, cursed, or persecuted by someone, do not think of what has happened to you, but of what will come from it, and you will see that your insulter has become the cause of many benefits to you, not only in this age, but in that which is to come.
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Do not attempt to benefit by rebukes one who boasts of his virtues, for he loves to display himself can not be a lover of truth.
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Do not try to decide a difficult matter by means of disputing, but that which is enjoined by the spiritual law, namely patience, prayer, and thoughtful hope.
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Failure to do the good that is within your power is hard to forgive. But mercy and prayer reclaim the negligent.
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No one is as good and merciful as the Lord. But even He does not forgive the unrepentant.
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Whoever does not fight the one who despises him, neither in word not in thought, has received true knowledge and demonstrates a firm trust in God.
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We must receive the one who curses us as a messenger from God, rebuking our hidden evil thoughts, so that we, seeing our thoughts with exactness, might correct ourselves. For we do not know how many hidden evils we have Only a perfect man can understand all of his own shortcomings.
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One evil receives strength from another. In the same way, good deeds also sprout one from another, and the one in whom they are found grows larger.
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Conquer temptations by the patience and prayer. If you oppose them without these, you will fall all the more severely.
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If someone falls into any sin and is not sincerely grieved about it, it is easy for him to fall into the same thing again.
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Whoever with fear of God corrects and directs a sinner gains virtue for himself, that of opposition to sin. But whoever insults a sinner with rancor and without good will falls, according to a spiritual law, into the same passion with the sinner.
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Because God's justice is inexorable, it is hard to obtain forgiveness for sins committed with complete deliberation.
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Whoever has a spiritual gift and compassionate toward one who does not have it guards his gift through his compassion. But whoever is proud of his gift loses it through self-opinion.
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Consistently pray in all things, so that you might not do anything without the help of God ... Whoever does or busies himself with anything without prayer does not succeed in the end. Concerning this, the Lord said: Without Me you can't do anything. (John 15:5)
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We cannot with all our heart forgive someone who does us wrong unless we possess real knowledge. For this knowledge shows us that we deserve all we experience.
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The devil makes small sins seem smaller in our eyes, for otherwise he can't lead us to greater evil.
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He who seeks forgiveness of his sins loves humility, but if he condemns another he seals his own wickedness.
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The sign of sincere love is to forgive wrongs done to us. It was with such love that the Lord loved the world.
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It is better to pray with good will for our neighbor, rather than to denounce him for every sin.
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