St. Philaret the New Confessor

It is not right to say that our surroundings or the circumstances of our life do not allow us to save our souls. Of course, one cannot close one's eyes to the fact that today's life is quite different to what it was seventy or eighty years ago; it is more complex and it has also become more corrupt. But the Apostle says, Where sin aboundeth, there doth grace much more abound (cf. Rom. 5:20), i.e., if sin increases, the person desiring salvation experiences an increase in the help of the grace-filled power of the Lord that his soul might not be crushed by all that surrounds him, but that it remain faithful to God and be saved.

Saint Philaret the New Confessor, + 1985 A.D.