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The world as a prison, the martyrs as athletes (The Christian outside the prison has renounced the world, but in the prison he has renounced a prison too. It is of no consequence where you are in the world - you who are not of it)
Patience is God's nature (He cared for the ungrateful; He yielded to His ensnarers. This were a small matter, if He had not had in His company even His own betrayer, and stedfastly abstained from pointing him out.)
Fasting as a prerequisite of the remembrance of God (if the eternal God will not hunger, as He testifies through Isaiah, this will be the time for man to be made equal with God, when he lives without food)
Of Stations, and of the Hours of Prayer (we must pray always, and everywhere, and at every time; yet still these three hours, as being more marked in things human - (hours) which divide the day, which distinguish businesses, which re-echo in the public ear - have likewise ever been of special solemnity in divine prayers)
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