Cool thing

Over on Doxos, Huw has this cool thing called Patristic Roulette. I don't know if he has an engine that scours patrisitc texts and pops out these little gems, or if he types in a new one each day - regardless, it is cool. Here is the one I saw today:

"The man who decides to struggle against his flesh and to overcome it by his own efforts is fighting in vain. The truth is that unless the Lord overturns the house of the flesh and builds the house of the soul, the man wishing to overcome it has watched and fasted for nothing. Offer the Lord the weakness of your nature. Admit your incapacity and, without your knowing it, you will win for yourself the gift of chastity." - St John of the Ladder

I guess I'm going to have to buy a copy of The Ladder and read it. (When I am through with school.)