Everyone, without exception, wants happiness, blessedness. However they all have different ideas about it: one thinks it lies in the delight of the senses and an easy life; another, in virtue; another, in knowledge of the truth. Hence he who teaches us all… begins by correcting those who stray, guiding those who are on the way, and welcoming those who are knocking at the door… So he who is “the Way, the Truth and the Life” (Jn 14:6) both corrects and guides and welcomes, and he begins with these words: “Blessed are the poor in spirit.” (Mt 5:3)
–Blessed Isaac of Stella (Twelfth Century)
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