What’s your priority? (Saint Paisios the Athonite)

People who give priority to their internal formation (that of the soul) and use their external training to assist in this quickly become spiritually transformed, provided they work at spiritual matters. Then they have a positive effect on lots of people, because they release people from the anxiety of Hell and bring them to the elation of Paradise. Such people might have fewer academic qualifications, but they can help more, because they’ve got Grace, rather than lots of papers.