Status Updates From THE LADDER OF DIVINE ASCENT

“Demons keep away from us when we are living in the world that we may go on staying among worldly-minded people because we are not attacked there… We should realize that the place in which we were attacked is the one in which we are certainly waging bitter war on the enemy; for if we are ourselves are not waging war, the enemy is presenting himself as our friend.”

“We must carefully consider whether our conscience has ceased to accuse us, not as a result of purity, but because it is immersed and evil. A sign of deliverance… Is the continual acknowledgment of our indebtedness.”