A worker takes the trouble to get hold of the instruments
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"A worker takes the trouble to get hold of the instruments that he
requires. He does so not simply to have them and not use them. Nor is there
any profit for help,
In the same way, fasting, vigils, scriptural meditation, nakedness, and
total deprivation do not constitute perfection but are the means to
perfection. They are not themselves the end point of a discipline, but an
end is attained through them. To practice them will therefore be useless if
someone instead of regarding these as means to an end is satisfied to
regard them as the highest good. One would possess the instruments of a
profession without knowing the end where the hoped-for fruit is to be
found."
St. John Cassian.
"For who makes you differ from another? And what do you have that you did
not receive? Now if you did indeed receive it, why do you boast as if you
had not received it?"
1 Corinthians 4:7