My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one. As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world. JOHN 17:15, 18 Holiness has to do with my relationships. Sometimes it has been thought that a state of isolation and solitude, permanently detached from ordinary human involvements, is a help, or perhaps even a necessity, for the practice of holiness. It is true that holy living calls for regular times of aloneness with God. But
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