Landon Ashcraft’s Reviews > Saint Paisios the Athonite > Status Update

Reading the early years of this saint’s life breeds a pleasant mixture of fascination and inspiration. Seeing his struggles with judgment, searching for the balance between patriotism for country and citizenship of heaven, and even reading of his early acts of devotion are awe-inspiring with a pinch of “I’m the same age he was then; could I also live this way?”