No man that wars entangles himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who has chosen him to be a soldier.
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Maximus of Turin
AD 423
Clerics do not seem to be on military service in the world, yet they are nonetheless soldiers for God and the Lord. As the apostle says, No one soldiering for God involves himself in secular affairs. We seem, I say, not to be soldiers in our loose and flowing tunics, but we have our military belt, by which we are bound to an interior purity.
