St Symeon the New Theologian: Those who purify their senses and hearts from every evil desire...

Those who purify their senses and hearts from every evil desire while living in the world indeed deserve praise and are surely blessed.

Correspondingly, those who dwell in mountains and caves, but who pursue human praise and blessing, deserve censure and rejection. 

In the eyes of God, diviner of our hearts, they are adulterers.

For the person who wants his life and name and ascetic practice to be known in the world prostitutes himself in God's sight, as, according to David, the Jewish people once did (cf. Ps. 106:39).

St Symeon the New Theologian 

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