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St Basil the Great, tr. Lowther Clarke, 1925
Rule 299: How May the Soul Feel Assured that It is Free from Love of Glory?
When it obeys the Lord’s words, “So let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven’1; and the apostle’s precept: “Whether ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God”2; in order that the godly man, seeking glory neither in the present nor in the future, and preferring the love towards God to all else, may have boldness to say with those that have gone before: ‘“Neither things present, nor things to come, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”3 For our Lord Jesus Christ Himself said: “I seek not my own glory”’4; and: “He that speaketh from himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh the glory of him that sent him, the same is true.”5
Notes
- Mt. v. 16.
- 1 Cor. x. 31.
- Rom. viii. 38; 39.
- Jn. viii. 50.
- Jn. vii. 18.