“You can refrain from sinning out of
fear. It is an inferior step, but good in its own way. Or out of
love: the way saints and people of superior character do. But also out of
shame. A terrible shame, like one at having done unseemly things in front of a delicate person, at having cast an ugly word at an old woman, at having cheated someone who trusts you. After you have known Christ, it becomes hard to sin; you are terribly ashamed.”
―
Nicolae Steinhardt,
Jurnalul fericirii
