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Chapter XII. That except that wholesome sorrow, which springs up in three ways, all sorrow and dejection should be resisted as hurtful.

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Wherefore except that sorrow which is endured either for the sake of saving penitence, or for the sake of aiming at perfection, or for the desire of the future, all sorrow and dejection must equally be resisted, as belonging to this world, and being that which "worketh death," and must be entirely expelled from our hearts like the spirit of fornication and covetousness and anger.

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The Works Of John Cassian

The collected writings of John Cassian, a foundational fourth-century monastic writer whose works on prayer, spiritual combat, and communal life shaped Western Christian monasticism.

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