Venerable Isaac the Syrian. "Ascetical Homilies".
217. Therefore, the Lord leaves the
reasons for humility and contrition of the heart in intensified prayer
to His Saints, so that those who love Him will come closer to Him
through humility. And often frightens them with the passions of their
nature and the creeps of shameful and unclean thoughts, and often with
reproaches, insults and slaps from people, sometimes with bodily
illnesses and ailments, at other times, with poverty and lack of
necessary things, then with excruciating strong fear, abandonment,
obvious attacks of the devil, and various terrible incidents. And all
this in order for them to have reasons for humility and not to fall into
the sleep of sloth.
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