Various Church Fathers
Chapter XVI. A question on the changing character of the thoughts.
The Works of John Cassian. — translated by ANF/NPNF editors
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A question on the changing character of the thoughts.
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Germanus. How is it then, that even against our will, aye and without our knowledge idle thoughts steal upon us so subtilely and secretly that it is fearfully hard not merely to drive them away, but even to grasp and seize them? Can then a mind sometimes be found free from them, and never attacked by illusions of this kind?
Translated by ANF/NPNF editors. Edition ccel.npnf211.division.iv.en.