“A young child does something wrong; let’s say he breaks one of his father’s tools and then is upset over it because he considers it to be a big mistake… In a similar manner, the more we suffer and grieve over our sinfulness or over our ingratitude to God and out of love cry for having grieved our  Father  with our sins, the more He will reward us with divine gladness and inner sweetness.”
(Elder St. Paisios in  ‘ Spiritual Stuggle’)

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