“He who desires to abandon a life of sin and live a righteous life must first of all examine which obligations he has most difficulty in fulfilling and does not like to fulfill; what exactly hinders their fulfillment; what he must do, what means he must employ to fulfill them more readily. Having done this, he must make a specific resolve…”
(Metropolitan Gregory of Novgorod, 1899 article from Mt Panteliemon’s Monastery)