“My child, man is unable to do anything on his own. He neither had, nor has, nor will ever have the power to do something good, unless God overshadows him from above. Every good thought, every good movement of the intellect is due to the operation of God’s grace. If you accomplished a task without your body’s participation, it is your own. However, if you did it with your body, it is God’s, since your body is a creation of God. If you thought of something without your mind, it is yours. However, if you thought of it with your mind, it is God’s, since your mind is a creation of God. Therefore, man has nothing of his own—everything begins from God and ends in God.”

– ‘Monastic Wisdom’