When the blessed Lord who loves people sends the ray of His divine blessing into the heart of the sinner, he immediately seeks the confessors to confess the evil deeds he has done.
He seeks for the desert, and for the cave, for the protection of himself from the passions and for the correction of the previous evil deeds, with a hard life, with thirst, with cold, and with other achievements
While the Lord gives him even more warmth which like a burning furnace burns his heart with a warm love of God, an infinite zeal for the fulfillment of the Lord’s teachings, and an infinite hatred for passions and sins.
Elder Joseph the Hesychast