Hampered When Pampered

“When luxury overwhelms the soul, its reasonings within are disturbed… Do not look at the cheerful and merry countenance, but examine the interior, and you will see it full of deep dejection… For the more the body grows sleek and gross, the more lean and weakly is the soul; and the more one is pampered, the more is the other hampered.”
Saint John Chrysostom
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