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Saint Theophan the Recluse

Warm up your heart

29 April 2019

Theophan_the_Recluse Struggle to warm up your heart and you’ll see how a warm heart reins in unruly thoughts.

You have to practice violence on yourself. Without toil and intellectual effort you won’t acquire anything spiritual.

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