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St Maximus the Confessor: The attacks of trials and temptations suffered against our will...

The ‘rough places’ - that is to say, the attacks of trials and temptations suffered against our will - shall be made ‘smooth’, above all when the intellect, rejoicing and delighting in weakness, affliction and calamity, through its unsought sufferings deprives of all their lordship the passions in which we deliberately indulge.

For by ‘rough places’ Scripture means those experiences of unsought trials and temptations which change to smooth ways when endured with patience and thankfulness (cf. Isa. 40:4. LXX).

St Maximus the Confessor
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