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   impassiveness (apatheia), or in other words indifference to the needs   
   and claims of the body. Discipline and asceticism were the means to   
   attain these. The stylites held, very logically, that the more severe   
   the discipline, the harsher the asceticism, the greater the hope of   
   winning the palm that Saint Paul promised to the winner of the race   
   (Benedictines, Encyclopedia).   
      
      
   Saint Quotes:   
   How can a man say he believes in Christ if he doesn't do what Christ   
   commanded him to do?   
   --St. Cyprian of Carthage   
      
   Bible Quote:   
   49 But he who hears and does not do them is like a man who built a   
   house on the ground without a foundation; against which the stream   
   broke, and immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great.”   
    (Luke 6:49)   RSVCE   
      
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   Renewed by Love   
      
       "People are renewed by love. As sinful desire ages them, so love   
   rejuvenates them. Enmeshed in the toils of his desires the psalmist   
   laments: 'I have grown old surrounded by my enemies.'   
       Love, on the other hand, is the sign of our renewal as we know   
   from the Lord's own words: 'I give you a new commandment—love one   
   another.'"   
   --St. Augustine--Sermon 350A, 21   
      
   Prayer: Lord, those who are bowed down with burdens you lift up, and   
   they do not fall because you are their support.   
   --St. Augustine--Confessions 11, 31   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)