Mark the Ascetic - On the Spiritual Law 47-50

<ol start="47"><li>Every blessing comes from the Lord providentially. But this fact escapes the notice of the ungrateful and the idle.</li> <li>Every vice leads in the end to forbidden pleasure; and every virtue to spiritual blessing. Each arouses what is akin to it.</li> <li>Censure from men afflicts the heart; but if patiently accepted it generates purity.</li> <li>Ignorance makes us reject what is beneficial; and when it becomes brazen it strengthens the hold of evil.</li> </ol>