Every Other Sorrow to Be Resisted

So, apart from the sorrow that is borne either for the sake of saving penitence, or for the sake of aiming at perfection, or out of desire for the things to come, all sorrow and dejection must equally be resisted, as belonging to this world and as the sorrow that “produces death.” It must be driven out of our hearts completely, like the spirit of sexual immorality, of greed, and of anger. [a]