“Therefore, if one examines these matters and because of this despises whatever is held in honor among people and longs only for the divine life, knowing that "all flesh is grass and all the glory of people is as the flower of grass," is he likely to think of grass, which exists today and is gone tomorrow, as something…”
Gregory of Nyssa, 4th c. — ON VIRIGINITY 4
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5I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, and set me in a large place.
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3Let the house of Aaron now say, that his mercy endureth for ever.
4Let them now that fear the LORD say, that his mercy endureth for ever.
— Psalms 118:5 —
6The LORD is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me?
7The LORD taketh my part with them that help me: therefore shall I see my desire upon them that hate me.