“I’ve met morally depraved men with a “carnal mindedness” who married pious Orthodox women leading a spiritual way of life. These husbands so clearly perceived their wives’ spiritual purity that they did not dare to come near them and have marital relations. As a result, they even thought of divorcing. If these simple women made such an influence on their unchaste spouses, then how impossibly difficult it is to describe the immeasurably greater and indelible impression that our Lady the Most-Holy Theotokos makes on others.”
– ‘St. Paisios the Hagiorite’