St. Justin Popovich | If he overcomes the passions, a man achieves purity of soul...
If he overcomes the passions, a man achieves purity of soul.
The “darkening of the intellect” comes from lack of compassion and from laziness. The virtues are “the wings of the intellect,” by the help of which it rises to heaven.
Christ sent down the Holy Spirit upon His apostles, and the Holy Spirit purified their intellects and made them perfect, slaying in them the old man of the passions and bringing the new, spiritual man to life.”
St. Justin Popovich
