12/6/23, 06:00 AM
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“Whoever has learned that afflictions, and in general everything that temptations cause us, are gifts from the Lord, has truly found the way of the Lord. Such a person eagerly waits for them to come, because he is purified through them, and by enduring them he is illuminated and beholds God.”
Monastic Wisdom: The Letters of Elder Joseph the Hesychast