St Peter of Damascus: Even without bodily strength he who wishes can possess all these things simply through his own resolution...

The recollection of death? The tears of distress for my failure to love? Where is the moral judgment attuned to God, that keeps the soul from the snares of our enemies? Where is the self-restraint that prevents anything contrary to the will of God from being done or deliberately thought? Where is the courage that endures terrible sufferings and that advances full of hope against the adversary?

Where is the justice that gives to each thing its due, the humility that knows its own weakness and ignorance, and the godlike compassion that would have saved me from all the wiles of the demons? Where is dispassion and perfect love, the peace that excels all intellect (cf. Phil. 4:7), whereby I should have been called a son of God (cf. Matt. 5:9)?

Even without bodily strength he who wishes can possess all these things simply through his own resolution.

St Peter of Damascus

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