33. К Руфину

I would like to write more often to your reverence, because I love you, and I love you very much, my most venerable and reverent master; You yourself know both. But since one thing depends on us, and the other does not depend on us, in love we are masters of ourselves, but regarding constant correspondence - not entirely, because the difficulty of communication and the inconvenient time of year often interfere, then we perform the first duty continuously, but the second - whenever possible, and perhaps, however, we also perform it continuously. In fact, if we do not constantly write to you with ink and on paper, then we constantly write to you in thought and in our souls: this is the property of sincere friendship. The paragraphs in the text were arranged by us. – Editorial staff of “ABC of Faith” You might be interested in: