We live on this earth and we are constantly enslaved to material things, while the angels never are.
This life has been given to us so that we can learn about eternal life, we can learn how to become free, how to walk freely, with a clear conscience and pure thoughts.
When we are free, we have no spiritual warfare – victory is ours because we have delivered ourselves to God.
He is the one who determines our lives and we accept whatever happens to us as if he is offering us His own hand.
Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnitsa