Protopresbyter Georgios Dorbarakis
‘There’s a danger that, if people pay no attention to little things, this neglect will then extend to greater and more sacred ones, without their realizing. They vindicate themselves by saying that this isn’t important, that that doesn’t matter and they’ll reach the point, God forfend, of completely disdaining all things divine and will end up as impious, shameless atheists’ (Saint Païsios).
The great, modern Athonite Elder and Saint points out a pertinent problem which can arise in the spiritual life of Christians- the insidious, barely discernible path which believers often take and which leads, without them being aware, to impiety, shamelessness and even atheism. And what’s the tragic thing about this? That, although these believers blast atheists for being mindless, in that they have no veneration towards God, and for acting impudently towards other people, they themselves are already treading the same path as the atheists,…
