"The faster you gain a virtue, the more easily you lose again. More slowly and laboriously you will have gained, it will remain more firmly, just like the squash plant, which had become large and which said cypress:
- You saw how much I pushed a few days? You are there for many years and you have hardly grown!
- Yes, says the cypress, but you have not yet experienced the storms, heat waves and cold spells!
And shortly after the plant was dried gourd, while the cypress remained where he was.
So is the spiritual man. In times of storm or calm weather, it remains the same. Why? Because a long period of time creates stability. When this man began to renounce the world, his spiritual condition was unstable, but with time, the grace of God has gradually worked his salvation and liberation of his passions. Thus, a person needs to make efforts today, and the grace of God will begin to act for itself tomorrow. Then you will not need to strive to have good thoughts is remain in the grace that you will come to your mind without your effort. Then you will see great mysteries! You gain, so to speak, the presence in the spirit of death, or other memento beneficial. When you wake up and start opening your eyes, instead of feeling sleepy again, you progress, you've already gone through all the mystery of theoria and say, "But how this thing is product it when I get up to trouble? How does this thing occur? "
All alike, grace God acts by itself, it is the result of a longstanding practice.
The same thing happens with sin, awake or asleep, a sinful man constantly thinks evil When the sin is compounded by a bad habit and the devil, he becomes a pretty steady. So is it with good, a good habit aided by the grace of God becomes second nature. "
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