St. Symeon the New Theologian: It is one thing to be content with shabby clothes and have no desire for magnificent array...
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Lessons by our Holy Fathers
It is one thing to be content with shabby clothes and have no desire for magnificent array, but a different matter to put on the light of God.
They are two different things.
Caught up in a myriad of desires, some have easily been negligent, but only they [put on the light] who constantly search for it through all kinds of penitence; those who become children of light and of the day through the fulfillment of the commandments.
St. Symeon the New Theologian
