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Chapter XII. A question how true patience can be gained.

Works of St John Cassian (Institutes, Conferences, On the Incarnation) · Saint John Cassian

A question how true patience can be gained.

Cassian 4.13.1

Germanus: We should like to know how that calmness can be secured and maintained, that, as when silence is enjoined on us we shut the door of our mouth, and lay an embargo on speech, so also we may be able to preserve gentleness of heart, which sometimes even when the tongue is restrained loses its state of calmness within: and for this reason we think that the blessing of gentleness can only be preserved by one in a remote cell and solitary dwelling.

Cassian 4.13.2