Sense After Sin

Μὴ συγκοινωνεῖτε φησὶν ὁ Ἀπόστολος, τοῖς ἀκάρποις ἔργοις τοῦ σκότους. Τίνα γὰρ καρπὸν εἴχετε ἐν τοῖς τοῦ νοητοῦ θανάτου ὀψωνίοις, ἐφ' οἶς νῦν ἐπαισχύνεσθε; Ἀληθῶς γὰρ ἄκαρπα τυγχάνει τὰ ἔργα τὰ πονηρὰ, καὶ πᾶσα σκοτεινὴ πρᾶξις. Ὅταν δὲ ἡ ψυχὴ δυνηθῇ ἀνανῆψαι, καὶ εἰς συναίσθησιν ἐλθεῖν, ἐρυθριᾷ μᾶλλον καὶ αἰσχύνεται ἐπὶ τοῖς ἁμαρτηθεῖσιν ἐν τῇ μέθῃ τῆς κακίας, καὶ ἐναύγαμα εὑρίσκει σωφροσύνης. Ἅγιος Νειλος, Βιβλιον Πρῶτον, Ἐπιστολὴ ΡΝ' Γεροντιῳ Εκσκεπτωρι

'Do not associate with the unfruitful workers of darkness,'  says the Apostle. 1 For with such fruit you had the taste of spiritual death, and yet still you are ashamed? Truly unfruitful are depraved works, and every work of darkness, but when the soul has regained sobriety and been brought back to its senses, rather than blushing and being ashamed on account of the evils that it did in its drunkenness, let it discover the glory of continence. Saint Nilus of Sinai, Book 1, Letter 150 to Gerontius 1 Ephes 5.11