>>24746909St. Anselm of Canterbury or St. Bonaventure IMHO
>>24747145Anselm is nice but goofyId say St. John Of The Cross
Saint Francis de Sales is literally the patron saint of writers, and supposedly in his native French his prose is Godly.
>>24746909I'd say Ramon Llull, but he's a Blessed, so... Aquinas or Bonaventure I guess.
None of them wrote in modern English so you have to ask a professor
>>24747866>St. John Of The Crossgood pick together with st. teresa of avilajuana inés de la cruz is also very highly praised but ive never read her and she's not revered as a saint
St. Jerome: This is one of the worst sacks in history, I am on the verge of tears. Every day more and more refugees pour in; I am devastated by the news they bring. St. Augustine: lmao get fucked, Rome. Everyone who died deserved it, anyone who blames Christianity is an idiot and deserves to die too haha>inb4 seething replies that I won't readAugustine was a bully and a jerk. Deal with it.
I'm just gonna go with Paul. 1st Corinthians is a masterpiece.
>>24746909John Henry Newman. James Joyce ranked him as the best prose stylist of English.
>>24748496til he is a saint
what happened to the christian esotericism general
Origen has some bangers>Good is one; many are the base. Truth is one; many are the false. True righteousness is one; many are the statesthat act it as a part. God’s wisdom is one; many are the wisdoms of this age and of the rulers of this age which come to nought. The word of God is one, but many are the words alien to God.Saint John of the Ladder is great too. Saint Isaac of Nineveh is another favorite.I like pic related too.
>>24750715>The foul fiend whispered praise into the heart of an ascetic who was striving for blessed humility, but by divine inspiration he contrived to conquer the guile of the spirits by a pious ruse. He rose and wrote on the wall of his cell the names of the highest virtues in order, that is: perfect love, angelic humility, pure prayer, inviolable chastity and others like these. And so when thoughts of vainglory began to praise him, he said to them: ‘Let us go and be judged.’ Then, going to the wall, he read the names and cried to himself: ‘When you possess all these, then you will know how far you still are from God!’_Saint John Climacus. _The Ladder of Divine Ascent_. “Step XXV: On the destroyer of the passions, most sublime humility, which is rooted in spiritual feeling.”>The world" is the general name for all the passions. When we wish to call the passions by a common name, we call them the world. But when we wish to distinguish them by their special names, we call them passions. The passions are the following: love of riches, desire for possessions, bodily pleasure from which comes sexual passion, love of honor which gives rise to envy, lust for power, arrogance and pride of position, the craving to adorn oneself with luxurious clothes and vain ornaments, the itch for human glory which is a source of rancor and resentment, and physical fear. Where these passions cease to be active, there the world is dead…. Someone has said of the Saints that while alive they were dead; for though living in the flesh, they did not live for the flesh. See for which of these passions you are alive. Then you will know how far you are alive to the world, and how far you are dead to it.Saint Isaac of Nineveh - Ascetical Homilies
>>24750160>christian esotericismIt doesn't exist.John 18:20
>>24750715>um akshually, doing what you want is slavery>trve freedom is doing what I say you should do
>>24751008Come on, now. Being free even as a literal slave is transcendental.This is like trying to mock Conan the Barbarian for being captured, but never accepting his role as a prisoner.
>>24746909St. Guénon
>>24746909St. Evola
