However weighed down and entangled in earthly fetters you may be, it can never be too late.

Faith comes not through pondering but through action.

Nothing happens accidentally or in such a way that you cannot learn from it; you must understand this at once, for this is how your trust grows in the Lord whom you have chosen to follow.

Through practice he has accustomed himself to wish for nothing, and for a person with no wishes, everything goes just as he wishes, explains the Abbot Dorotheus. His will has coincided with God's will, and whatever he asks, he will receive.

It begins here, and has no end, and no earthly power can coerce it; and it is to be found in the human heart.

However weighed down and entangled in earthly fetters you may be, it can never be too late.

He has made peace with himself, as Isaac the Syrian says, and heaven and earth have made peace with him. He is gathering the fruit of humility. But this takes place only on the narrow way, and few there be that find it.