“The time of the end, though it seems to be near, we do not know. However close, it is still future, and in the present we have only the same age-old fight against the unseen powers, against the world, and against our own passions, upon the outcome of which our eternal fate will be decided. Let us then struggle while it is still day, with the time and  the weapons which our All-merciful God has given us!”
(Fr Seraphim Rose, ‘Intro to Blessed Paisius’)