{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/211/2110479.htm","path":"chr/ecf/211/2110479.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/211/2110479.htm","text":"That if we have improved our character it is possible for us to get on with everybody.\nWe must then do our best to endeavour to amend our faults and correct our manners. And if we succeed in correcting them we shall certainly be at peace, I will not say with men, but even with beasts and the brute creation, according to what is said in the book of the blessed Job: \u201cFor the beasts of the field will be at peace with thee;\u201d 959 for we shall not fear offences coming from without, nor will any occasion of falling trouble us from outside, if the roots of such are not admitted and implanted within in our own selves: for \u201cthey have great peace who love thy law, O God; and they have no occasion of falling.\u201d 960","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. XI: The Works of John Cassian.: Chapter VIII. That if we have improved our character it is possible for us to get on with everybody.","type":"page"}