The Holy Apostle John the Theologian said that God’s commandments are not hard, but easy to keep (I John 5:3). But they are easy only when there’s love, because if it weren’t for love, then everything became a torment. For this reason, watch the love, don’t lose it, and struggle to bring it back with tears and prayers, because without love life is torment. But who stays in the evil – that one destroys his soul – God forbid and save us from this danger!

(Translated from Cuviosul Siluan Athonitul, Între iadul deznădejdii și iadul smereniei, Editura Deisis, p. 210)