This quote, sent to me by my godparents, really influenced my heart today. It’s a good reminder to all of us who are still in school (or even those who aren’t!).
The enemy knows that prayer is our invincible weapon against him, and so he tries to keep us from praying. He fills us with a desire for secular learning, and encourages us to spend our time on studies that we have already renounced. Let us resist his suggestions; otherwise, if we neglect our own fields and go wandering elsewhere, we shall harvest thorns and thistles instead of figs and grapes. “For the wisdom of this world is folly in God’s sight” (I Corinthians 3:19).
– St. John of Karpathos
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Elise says
Beautiful passage…thank you for posting it.