“If you live in the embrace of divine grace, evil will not harm you. If you do not live with divinity evil will encircle you and you will be overtaken by indolence and you will be afflicted. If you see someone who is indolent then the person is sick in the soul. Often we see a client, discrete and circumspect person we say “a very fine and saintly person.” And yet he may be indolent. The indolent, sluggard and lazy are not acceptable in the eyes of God. Laziness is a very bad thing. Indolence is an illness; it is a sin. God does not want us to be indolent.”
Elder Porphyrios
~Wounded by Love