From the BBC series: Extreme Pilgrim.

(via Orthodox Fathers)

I saw the snares that the enemy spreads out over the world and I said groaning, ‘What can get through from such snares?’ Then I heard a voice saying to me, ‘Humility.’

St Anthony of Egypt (c251-356)

Someone asked Abba Anthony “?What must one do in order to please God?”? The old man replied, “?Pay attention to what I tell you: whoever you may be, always have God before your eyes, whatever you do, do it according to the testimony of the holy Scriptures; in whatever place you live, do not easily leave it. Keep these three precepts and you will be saved.?”
Abba Anthony the Great, 251-356

I saw the snares that the enemy spreads out over the world and I said groaning, ‘What can get through from such snares?’ Then I heard a voice saying to me, ‘Humility.’
St Anthony of Egypt