Wise as Serpents and Innocent As Doves: Repentance and Training the Conscience

Patterns for Life audiobook Chapter 5

Educating the will, in the context of personality, means giving a child the ability to understand themselves as using their will in the service of Christ, to become saints ‘unique in the world.’ We do not want them to see themselves as merely a reductive pattern of personality that has a neat testing label and can accurately predict their inclinations much like an academically dressed-up horoscope. For an Orthodox Christian, the will must be directed explicitly towards the ultimate freedoms of sainthood.

~ Patterns for Life, Chapter 5