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AND truly the saints have never said that it was by their own efforts
that they secured the direction of the way in which they walked in their
course towards advance and perfection of virtue, but rather they prayed for
it from the Lord, saying "Direct me in Thy truth," and "direct my way in
thy Sight." But someone else declares that he discovered this very fact
not only by faith, but also by experience, and as it were from the very
nature of things: "I know, O Lord, that the way of man is not his: neither
is it in a man to walk and to direct his steps." And the Lord Himself
says to Israel: "I will direct him like a green fir-tree: from Me is thy
fruit found."
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