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Isaac of Nineveh , also remembered as Saint Isaac the Syrian, Abba Isaac, Isaac Syrus and Isaac of Qatar, was a 7th-century Church of the East Syriac Christian bishop and theologian best remembered for his written works on Christian asceticism. He is regarded as a saint in the Assyrian Church of the East and in the Chaldean Catholic and Eastern Orthodox tradition, his feast day falls, together with 4th-century theologian and hymnographer St. Ephrem the Syrian, on January 28. Wikipedia  

✵ 640 – 700
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“If the heart is not occupied with study, it cannot endure the turbulence of the body's assault.”

Source: The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian, p. 116

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