In a talk given at Brigham Young University in 1996, F. Enzio Busche quoted a writing of Johannes Cassian about tired saints: It is easier for a worldly person to come to a healing change of his life, or even to the top of perfection, than a tired saint who is fallen from his first enthusiasm, because the worldly man will go through pain and agony and, sooner or later, he will not be able to stand it any longer, and will rush in the depths of ...
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