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| St. Athanasius the Great |
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"The enemy draws near to us in afflictions, and trials, and labors, using every endeavor to ruin us. But the man who is in Christ, combating those things that are contrary, and opposing wrath by long-suffering, contumely by meekness, and vice by virtue, obtains the victory, and exclaims, 'I can do all things through Christ Who strengthens me' (Phil. 4:13); and, 'In all these things we are conquerors through Christ Who loved us' (Rom. 8:37)." |