In the third century, St. Cyprian wrote to a friend named Donatus:
"This seems a cheerful world, Donatus, when I view it from this fair garden….But if I climbed some great mountain and looked out, you know very well what I would see; brigades on the high road, pirates on the seas, in the amphitheaters men murdered to please the applauding crowds....
Yet in the midst of it, I have found a quiet and holy people. They are despised and persecuted, but they care not. They have overcome the world. These people Donatus, are Christians.
What a compliment! A quiet and holy people....
Not obnoxious. Not boastful. Not demanding. Just quiet.
Holy. Set apart. Pure. Decent. Honest. Wholesome."
From "Grace For The Moment"
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