His Grace speaks to about our conscience and shares with us words from St Dorotheos of Gaza.

"When we begin to say, 'What is it if I say just these few words? What does it matter if I eat this morsel? What difference if I poke my nose in here or there? From this way of saying, 'What does this or that matter?' a man takes evil and bitter nourishment and begins presently to despise greater and more serious things and even to tread down his own conscience and so, at last destroying it, bit by bit, he falls into danger and finally becomes completely impervious to the light of conscience.

Therefore, brothers, see to it that we do not neglect little things; see to it that we do not despise them as of no account. There are no 'little things'—for when it is a question of bad habits, it is a question of a malignant ulcer. Let us live circumspectly, let us give heed to trivial matters when they are trivial, lest they .become grave. Doing what is right and what is wrong: both begin from small things and advance to what is great, either good or evil.” St Dorotheos of Gaza (Dorotheos of Gaza: Discourses and Sayings)

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