If you wish to be called wise …

• If you wish to be called wise, intel­li­gent, and the friend of God, strive to present your soul to the Lord in the same state as you received it from Him: pure, inno­cent, com­pletely unde­filed. Then you will be crowned in heaven and the angels will call you blessed.
  – John of Karpathos

  
  

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