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<blockquote data-quote="pissballsack" data-source="post: 14651" data-attributes="member: 330">The Lord would speak to Moses face to face, as one speaks to a friend. (Exodus 33:11)&quot;It is time for you, noble friend, to be known by God and to become his friend. This is true perfection: not to avoid a wicked life because like slaves we servilely fear punishment, nor to do good because we hope for rewards, as if cashing in on the virtuous life by some business-like and contractual arrangement. On the contrary, disregarding all those things for which we hope and which have been reserved by promise, we regard falling from God's friendship as the only thing dreadful and we consider becoming God's friend the only thing worthy of honor and desire. This, as I have said, is the perfection of life.&quot;From The Life of MosesBy Saint Gregory of Nyssa<img src="https://pilgrimvisions.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/c3b48-_1_1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 50%; height: 50%" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="pissballsack, post: 14651, member: 330"] [I][SIZE=6]The Lord would speak to Moses face to face, as one speaks to a friend. (Exodus 33:11[/SIZE][SIZE=7][I])[/I][/SIZE][/I] [SIZE=7]"It is time for you, noble friend, to be known by God and to become his friend. This is true perfection: not to avoid a wicked life because like slaves we servilely fear punishment, nor to do good because we hope for rewards, as if cashing in on the virtuous life by some business-like and contractual arrangement. On the contrary, disregarding all those things for which we hope and which have been reserved by promise, we regard falling from God's friendship as the only thing dreadful and we consider becoming God's friend the only thing worthy of honor and desire. This, as I have said, is the perfection of life." From [I]The Life of Moses[/I] By Saint Gregory of Nyssa [B][IMG width="50%" height="50%"]https://pilgrimvisions.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/c3b48-_1_1.jpg[/IMG][/B][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]

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