It is harmful to remember previous sins in detail. For if they bring you sorrow, they will estrange you from hope, but if they are remembered without sorrow, they will introduce the previous defilement. If you want to bring to God an uncondemned confession, then don't remember your sins in detail, but manfully endure the suffering that is coming because of them.
Marcus EremitaWhen the mind forgets the purpose of Christian life, then even the clear fulfillment of virtue becomes profitless.
Marcus EremitaWhoever with fear of God corrects and directs a sinner gains virtue for himself, that of opposition to sin. But whoever insults a sinner with rancor and without good will falls, according to a spiritual law, into the same passion with the sinner.
Marcus EremitaWhoever prays for those who hurt him lays the demons low; but he who opposes his affronter is bound to the demons.
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