Then let fear make the beginning because the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Fear so to say prepares a place for charity. But when once charity has begun to inhabit the fear which prepared the place for it is cast out. For in proportion as this increases that decreases: and the more this comes to be within is the fear cast out. Greater charity less fear; less charity greater fear. – St Augustine of Hippo #orthodoxy #coptic #churchfathers #truth