11/12/23, 06:00 AM
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“Grace does not bring despair, but it continually brings to repentance a person who has fallen. On the other hand, the words of the demons bring despair at once; they blight him like hail falling upon delicate little leaves that have just sprouted.”
Monastic Wisdom: The Letters of Elder Joseph the Hesychast by Elder Joseph Hesychast