"There are two buildings and two cities constructed since the beginning of the world. Christ builds the one, the devil the other....Those who are built on the structure of Christ are lifted up from the depths to the heights; those on the structure of the devil are hurled from the heights into the depths....If a man sees pride dominant in himself, he should not doubt that he is being unhappily built, or rather thrown down, in the city of the devil....Practice obedience with humility. Have you not read: 'For the sake of the words of Your lips I have kept hard ways'? [Psalm 17:4]. The commands of a superior seem difficult; how much harder will be the advice of the deceiver? How much harder are the things which avarice commands its advocates!"--St. Caesarius of Arles, Sermon 233, "To the Holy Monks at the Monastery in Blanzac"
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