03 September 2009

Patristic Quote of the Day

There are some also who investigate spiritual precepts with cunning care, but what they penetrate with their understanding they trample on in their lives: all at once they teach the things which not by practice but by study they have learned; and what in words they preach by their manners they impugn. Whence it comes to pass that when the shepherd walks through steep places, the flock follows to the precipice. --St. Gregory the Great, Pastoral Rule, Book I, Chapter 2

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