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St Theodoros the Great Ascetic: our goal is not merely the purification of the passions but preparation for virtue...

What an immense struggle it is to break the fetter binding us so strongly to material things, to stop worshiping these things, and to acquire instead a state of holiness. Indeed, unless our soul is truly noble and courageous it cannot embark on such a task. 

For our goal is not merely the purification of the passions: this by itself is not real virtue, but preparation for virtue. To purification from vicious habits must be added the acquisition of the virtues.


St Theodoros the Great Ascetic