My foot has held fast to his steps, his way have I kept, and not turned aside.
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Gregory The Dialogist
AD 604
42. For he ‘keeps the way and does not decline,’ who practises the thing whereon his mind is bent. Since to ‘keep’ in the bent is ‘not to decline’ in the practice. For this is the anxiety of the righteous, that day by day they should try their actions by the ways of truth, and proposing these as a rule to themselves, they should not decline from the track of their right course. Thus day by day they strive to get above themselves, and in proportion as they are lifted up upon the summit of virtues, they judge with heedful censure, whatever there is of themselves left remaining below themselves. And they are in haste to draw the whole of themselves there, where they find that they have been brought in part.
