Quote from Letter 9.67 to Domitius, priest and abbot. November-December 598
Just as it is a serious matter and thoroughly blameworthy if a controversy over secular matters should arise between persons serving our almighty Lord and last for a long time, even so it is praiseworthy and well suited to religious zeal, to prefer a peace welcome to God to material gains, and from transitory things, to reap the everlasting profits of love.
Just as it is a serious matter and thoroughly blameworthy if a controversy over secular matters should arise between persons serving our almighty Lord and last for a long time, even so it is praiseworthy and well suited to religious zeal, to prefer a peace welcome to God to material gains, and from transitory things, to reap the everlasting profits of love.
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), II, 584
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