Gleanings from Orthodox Christian Authors and the Holy Fathers

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Therefore let us redeem the time of our life, giving over our resolution and our whole selves to the doing of God's commandments alone, to the sole acquisition and gain of the virtues, so that, carried by the gifts of the Spirit, we may arrive at God's safe harbors, and may flee those evil days and that evil report which sends sinners away to the outer fire prepared for the devil and his angels. St. Symeon the New Theologian, On the Mystical Life, Vol. 2.