Archimandrite Constantine Zaitsev of Jodanville:
"All that has been said here must be kept firmly in mind, insofar as we come to comprehend the spiritual state of the world. Do we remain successively tied to our holy past to such an extent, as to look through its eyes on all that is happening around us? If we have blended with our environment, making common cause with it – all is over! We are already not with Christ. We are already incapable of 'hearing' not only 'Moses and the prophets,' but the Risen Christ Himself. We are in the power of that, by which an apostate world is living: faith in the Lie!
Nor is there any need to think that immersion into this dark element is the result of some, so to speak, formal act of renunciation of Christ’s Truth. In infinitely varied forms does Falsehood creep up upon us, poisoning, and finally, also substituting our consciousness, if only we do not stand on constant spiritual guard over our witnessing [to the faith]."
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