Do not say that it is impossible to achieve a virtuous life, but say
that it is not easy. Those who have achieved the virtuous life find it
is not easy to maintain. Those who are devout, and whose intellect
enjoys the love of God, take part in the life of virtue. The unspiritual
intellect, however, is concerned with material things and wavers back
and forth, producing both good and evil thoughts. It does this because
it is changeable by nature and directed towards material things. But the
intellect that enjoys the love of God punishes the evil which arises on
its own through human laziness.
~St Anthony the Great
Thanks to Christ in Our Midst
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