Unless humility and
love, simplicity and goodness regulate our prayer, this prayer--or, rather, this
pretense of prayer--cannot profit us at all. And this applies not only to
prayer, but to every labor and hardship undertaken for the sake of virtue,
whether this be virginity, fasting, vigil, psalmody, service or any other
work. If we do not see in ourselves the fruits of love, peace, joy,
simplicity, humility, gentleness, guilelessness, faith, forbearance and
kindliness, then we endure our hardship to no purpose.
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