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Known for his numerous works on Christian spirituality, St. Isaac the Syrian’s Ascetical Homilies are treasured for his perspective on both the Christian life and the practice of “stillness” and quietude in prayer, or what the Orthodox Church calls “hesychasm.” This work is considered by many to be one of the most important writings on spirituality in the history of the Church.

are not strained with the odour of desires, nor his soul with the filth of their sweetness? If a man subdues his impulses in order to penetrate into the mysteries of all classes of beings, and is filled with insight into all kinds of knowledge, so to say, yet his soul is defiled by the filth of sin so that he cannot hope on account of the witness of his soul that he shall safely reach the harbour of trust—then there is none more foolish among the creatures than such a man who, though being constantly
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