Wednesday, May 04, 2011

How Virtue Is Measured



St. Antony of the Desert had also this strange-seeming principle: he held that not by length of time is the way of virtue measured and our progress therein, but by desire and by strong resolve. Accordingly, he himself gave no thought to the bygone time, but each day, he made greater effort to advance...

Saint Antony of the Desert (251-356 A.D.)
by
St. Athanasius

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