St. Theophan on the Mystery of Life in Christ
People concern themselves with Christian upbringing but leave it incomplete: they neglect the most essential and most difficult side of the Christian life and dwell on what is easiest, the visible and external. This imperfect or misdirected upbringing produces people who observe with utmost correctness all the formal and outward rules for devout conduct, but who pay little or no attention to the inward movements of the heart and to true improvement of inner spiritual life. They are strangers to mortal sins, but they do not heed the play of thoughts in the heart.
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