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5th Century / The Twelve Books on the Institutes of the Cœnobia, and the Remedies for the Eight Principal Faults

The Twelve Books on the Institutes of the Cœnobia, and the Remedies for the Eight Principal Faults 153That the victory over covetousness can only be gained by stripping one's self bare of everything.

John Cassian · The Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers Series II Volume XI: Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins, John Cassian by Philip Schaff

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This then is the perfect victory over covetousness: not to allow a gleam from the very smallest scrap of it to remain in our heart, as we know that we shall have no further power of quenching it, if we cherish even the tiniest bit of a spark of it in us.

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