Let All Adverse Powers Be Crushed No. 2 | Orthodox Christian Art Poster

In the Mystery of Baptism and Chrismation a man “puts on Christ” and the Holy Spirit (Gal. 3:27), and it depends on his free will, through living in according to the Gospel commandments, whether he “leav­ens” himself with the leaven of the Holy Spirit and firmly becomes a new man in the Image of Christ, or stifles all this by a life according to the fallen man.

- Abbot Nikon Vorobiev

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Nevertheless, even after baptism Satan still acts on the soul, often, indeed, to a greater degree than before. This is not because he is present in the soul together with grace; on the contrary, it is because he uses the body's humours to befog the intellect with the delight of mindless pleasures. God allows him to do this, so that a man, after passing through a trial of storm and fire, may come in the end to the full enjoyment of divine blessings.

+ St Diadochos of Photiki