“How artful and watchful a bird is! It does not let itself be caught in God’s wide world, but when it sees anybody approaching and wishing to seize it, it immediately flies up from the earth and thus saves itself. So also, the Christian must be wise and watchful in order that the incorporeal fowler may not catch his soul.

“So when we see the enemy striving to catch our soul by means of earthly things, we must immediately forsake these things with all our heart and must not for a moment attach ourselves to them. We must fly up in our thoughts to Jesus Christ, our Savior, and thus we shall easily be delivered ‘from the snare of the fowler’ (Ps. 91:3).”

– “My Life in Christ” St. John of Kronstadt