Amma Theodora said, “Let us strive to enter the narrow gate. Just as the trees, if they have not stood before the winter’s storms cannot bear fruit, so it is with us; this present age is a storm and it is only through many trials and temptations that we can obtain an inheritance in the kingdom of heaven.”
Excerpt from The Sayings of the Desert Fathers (and Mothers) by Benedicta Ward
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