“The grace of God gives help, comfort and consolation to all believers who live according to their conscience. He gives to each according to what he requires to strengthen or console him. These gifts are exceptional without repetition or continuation and belong to the overall general providence of God by which He sustains His creatures. But to those who are strong in their faith, who for love of God and with firm faith in Him have rejected everything and denied even nature itself exercising detailed vigilance in the strict keeping of His commandments – to these people divine providence does not appear exceptionally or in an undefined way in order to offer some consolation or save them from some particular situation that befalls them. It attends them with a system of motherly guardianship operating in a variety of ways.”
Elder Joseph
~Elder Joseph the Hesychast