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   "If we are not about to offer to ourselves the help rendered by the fast   
   because of bodily illness and at the same time display greater   
   indifference, we will see ourselves in an unusual exaggerated way. For if   
   the fast does not help us when all the aforementioned accomplishments are   
   missing so much is the case when we display greater indifference because we   
   cannot even use the medicine of fasting. Since you have learned these   
   things from us, I pardon you, those who can, fast and you yourselves   
   increase your acuteness and praiseworthy desire as much as possible."   
      
   St. John Chrysostom, On Fasting. that, as it is written,   
      
   "He who glories, let him glory in the Lord."  1 Corinthians 1:31   
      
   Draw nigh unto God and He will draw nigh unto you.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)