30 August 2024
Not that I think it is absolutely our duty to cut ourselves off from
those who do not receive the faith, but rather to have regard to them in
accordance with the old law of love, and to write to them with one consent,
giving them all exhortation with pity, and to propose to them the faith of the
fathers, and invite them to union. If we succeed we should be united in
communion with them; if we fail we must be content with one another and purge
our conduct of this uncertain spirit, restoring the evangelical and simple
conversation followed by those who accepted the Word from the beginning. They,
it is said, were of one heart and of one soul.
St. Basil the Great
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