SO GOOD QUOTES

What a difference there is between fleeing from and being freed from sin. 

A person may try to flee from sin, but this does not mean that he will have been liberated from this sin, even if he has not actually committed it. 

Running away from sin is something external. 

Liberation from sin is an inner condition of the heart. 

Nevertheless, to run away from sin is the first step, perhaps it is for beginners, but to seek freedom from sin is for those who are well on the way to maturity. 

Sometimes to escape from sin is proof of a fear of falling into error which shows that one has not yet been liberated on the inside! Fleeing from sin may also be a sign of one’s rejection of it, as was the case with the righteous Joseph when he fled from the wife of his master… 

Some of the Saints flee from sin out of a kind of humility, lest they fall prey to the devil of false glory. 

Sometimes they flee from sin in order to devote themselves to constructive spiritual work, but inside them they have been already liberated from such errors.

—H.H. Pope Shenouda III, Experiences in Life