SO GOOD QUOTES

The ancients knew too that one way of overcoming acedia [despondency] is to ridicule it by continually postponing flight until later; this is how one manages to remain faithful for one’s whole life!

It was said of Abba Theodore and Abba Lucius, both from Ennaton, that they spent fifty years ridiculing their own thoughts by saying: “After this winter we will depart from here.”  And when summer returned, they would say, “After this summer, we will depart from here.”  And that is what they did their whole life long, those memorable Fathers.

The Noonday Devil: Acedia, the Unnamed Evil of Our Times
Jean-Charles Nault