How will you guide others to love God if you don’t know God in advance? Are you trying to heal others, while you are sick?
You need to cleanse yourself first and then cleanse others.
To reach God, one has to sacrifice food and drink and luxurious clothing and credits and anything that keeps human beings in the earthly world. Be poor with your humility not rich with your brazen attitude.
Isaac the Syrian
*The article was originally published in Greek in ikivotos.gr