One should , as far as it is proper and necessary, be sometimes like a child, and sometimes a lion, this latter especially when passion or evil spiritsrise up against us.
We must always be attentive to the assaults of the devil, for can we hope he will leave us without temptation, when he did not leave our Founderand Source of faith and Perfecter the Lord Jesus Christ Himself.
The Lord Himself said to the Apostle Peter:" Simon, Simon, behold, satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat ( Lk. 22:31 )."
Little Russian Philokalia- St. Seraphim of Sarov
