Seeking Salvation

Εἰ σωτηρίας ὁρᾷς , πάντα ποίει τὰ εἰς ταύτην ἄγοντα. Τοῦ γὰρ ἐπιθυμοῦντός τι γενέσθαι, οὐ τὸ γενέσθαι, κωλύειν ἐστὶν· ἀλλὰ τὸ πάντα πράττειν ὅπως ἂν γένοιτο. Ἅγιος Ἰσίδωρος Του Πηλουσιώτου, Βιβλίον Δεύτερον, Ἐπιστολὴ ΚΖ' Παλλαδιῳ Διακονῳ Source: Migne PG 78.473d

If you seek salvation, do everything that will lead to it. For he who desires something to be, when it is not, is at a loss unless he does everything to bring it to be. Saint Isidore of Pelusium, Book 2, Letter 27, to Palladius the Deacon