“Now you see that grace has come again… Now it has come but again it will leave in order to send you from the passions. This will happen until you become the way the Lord wants you to be so that His grace may find a place and a way to stay. So exert yourself in the struggle. Don’t get lazy and don’t let time pass for you will not recover the time that you waste idly every day.”
(Elder Joseph the Hesychast in ‘Monastic Wisdom’)
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