The Spirit produces the fruit of love,joy,peace,patience,kindness,goodness,faithfulness,gentleness,self-control. GALATIANS 5:22-23
In the third century, St. Cyprian wrote to a friend named Donatus:
This seems a cheerful world, Donatus, when I view it from this fair garden....But if I climbed some great mountain and looked out...you know very well what I would see; brigandson the high road, pirates on the seas, in the applauding crowds....
Yet in the midst of it, I have found a quiet and holy people....They are despised and persecuted, but they care not. They have overcome the world. These people, Donatus, are Christians....
What a compliment! A quiet and holy people.... Quiet....Not obnoxious. Not boastful. Not demanding. Just quiet.... Holy.... Set apart. Pure. Decent. Honest. Wholesome....
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