@orthodoxy.theosis: From St. Paisios the Athonite, Spiritual Counsels, Vol. I: With Pain and Love for Contemporary Man (Holy Monastery "Evangelist John the Theologian," Souroti, Greece), p. 101 Evil creeps in slowly. If it were to move forward in sharp leaps and bounds, we would not be deceived. When [mischievous] people scald a frog, they pour a drop of boiling water on it. If you pour all the boiling water on the frog at once, it will jump up and flee from the danger. If you pour just a tiny droplet of boiling water on it, it will shake it off first, and then calm down. If you keep on pouring the water slowly, it will shake it off a little bit again, but gradually it will boil down without noticing it. “Oh, come on, you little leaper! If you’ve been sprayed with boiling water, jump up and run!” No, it doesn’t run away. It puffs up, inflates, and then boils. This is what the devil does: he “sprinkles us with boiling water” one drop at a time, and in the end, without noticing how, we are “cooked”. 🙏☦️❤️📿💀⚔️🕊🇬🇷

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