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Virtues either energize us or are energized by us. They energize us by being present in us when it is appropriate, when they will, for as long as they will and in whatever manner they will. We energize them ourselves according to our resolve and the moral state of our capabilities. But they energize us by virtue of their own essence, whereas we energize them merely in an imitative way, by modelling our moral conduct upon them. For all our actions are but typifications of the divine archetypes. --- St. Gregoy of Sinai, *Philokalia*, V. 4
Posted on: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 03:35:56 +0000

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