Set Apart

Set Apart

The Spirit produces the fruit of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.

Galatians 5:22–23

In the third century, St. Cyprian wrote to a friend named Donatus:

This seems a cheerful world, Donatus, when I view it from this fair garden. . . . But if I climbed some great mountain and looked out . . . you know very well what I would see; brigands on the high road, pirates on the seas, in the amphitheaters men murdered to please the applauding crowds. . . .

Yet in the midst of it, I have found a quiet and holy people. . . . They are despised and persecuted, but they care not. They have overcome the world. These people, Donatus, are Christians. . . .

What a compliment! A quiet and holy people. . . .

Quiet. . . . Not obnoxious. Not boastful. Not demanding. Just quiet. . . .

Holy. . . . Set apart. Pure. Decent. Honest. Wholesome. . . .

The Inspirational Study Bible