“It’s possible, but if you pay attention, you will see that you do not have an inner sweetness, in which case you will understand where you stand spiritually. Once in a while we think that we are endowed with a certain virtue just because we recognize some of its external traits and have adopted them in order to seem virtuous. But this is not real virtue and cannot last; it will be filtered at some point and then reality will emerge.”
(Elder St Paisios in ‘Passions’)