Ангелы
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In your letter... you describe your position and disposition to go to the monastery... Your father, seeing your inclination more toward the world, is afraid to allow you to enter this field and says that you must be an Angel in order to live in a monastery, and sees the opposite in them... We cannot be Angels, but, with the awareness of our weaknesses, we can have a humble wisdom, considering ourselves worse than all creation, and this is our duty and feat (I, 132, 273–274).
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