According to bSt/b. John Chrysostom, humility is the foundation of all virtue, for even if one distinguishes himself by fasting, prayer, alms, chastity, of any other virtue, without humility all of these would be destroyed and would perish. Thus there is no salvation without b..../b The blessed receive a special gift from God ? tenderness and the tears of tenderness, which show that ?godly tears and sorrow contain both joy and gaity, just as the bcomb/b contains the honey. ...
