Can a person begin correction every day?

"If he is a worker," the elder answered, "then every hour he can lay the foundation for salvation.

3. The Elder said: "If you have taken up the podvig, but then relaxed, gather yourself again and do not stop doing so until you die. In what a person is caught, they will be judged: in laziness or abstinence. Examine yourself every day and week, month and year, whether you have advanced in silence, fasting, prayer, and especially humility. The true prosperity of the soul is that every day it finds itself more and more humble, so that a person corrects the sins that constantly occur, and considers everyone better than himself. Without such a frame of mind, even if he performs signs and raises the dead, he is still far from God.

4. Abba Benjamin said, "Walk the royal way, count the miles, and do not lose heart."

3 From Saint Isaiah

Constantly think about what exactly you have sinned, and if you pray for your sins, God will forgive you. Constantly judge yourself here (on earth), carefully examine where you have made a mistake, and then you will not experience suffering in the terrible hour of death. Prepare to answer to God, and then you will do His will. Every day, check if you have conquered some passion today, and do not be overconfident. You are not the conqueror, but only the mercy and power of God.

2. When you wake up, remember how you will answer God for every deed, every word and every thought. Then you will not sin before God, and the fear of God will be in you.

4. From St. Ephraim

Brothers! We are spiritual merchants, like ordinary merchants who count profits and losses every day. If they see that they have suffered a loss, they make special efforts and diligence to compensate for it. So you, beloved, check your trade carefully every day, evening and morning. In the evening, when you enter the region of your heart, count everything and say to yourself: "Have I angered God? Have you not spoken an idle word? Was he indifferent, did he irritate his brother, did he not slander someone? Was it not so that my lips sang, and my mind thought of worldly things? Did not lustful lust enter into me, and did I not accept it with satisfaction? Did not earthly cares overwhelm me and did I not forget about God at that time?"

Think carefully about this and other similar things, and if you see that you have failed in something, hasten to make amends. Groan and weep and pray to God not to repeat the same mistake And in the morning think about the same thing and ask yourself: "How did I spend this night? Did you benefit or suffer? Were my mind and my body awake? Did my eyes cry? Was I not captivated by sleep during prostrations? Did not evil thoughts enter into me, and I, instead of immediately banishing them, gladly combined with them?"

This is how you need to examine yourself from all sides: perhaps you have sinned in some of the above. And then you need to work to correct these mistakes and stand guard over the heart so as not to endure the same thing again. If you always think so, you will keep your trade and place your profits safely in the heavenly treasuries.

Chapter 11: That it is dangerous for a believer to break even one commandment, for the fulfillment of all others depends on it; and that even a minor evil brings great harm

1. From the Life of St. Pachomius