How do we face all the worldly corruption?

The Epistle to Diognetus says, “He wants us to come to Him, to see Him as our only Father, the Guardian, Teacher, Counselor and Physician. He wants to fill and shape our every thought with His goodness, to change our way in this crooked dark world, so it becomes good. If you contemplate His righteousness, He truthfully fills you; He becomes your pride, glory, and strength. Righteousness becomes the life of your souls. Our faith then, is not based on human speculation, but on the righteousness of God, revealed in Jesus Christ. This is the faith that you can attain, making you strong when facing all the world's mire. This faith is given to you for free, only if you want it and accept it.”

St. Basil the Great says, “Job says: ‘No one is free from stain, not even if his life last for one day’ (Job 14:4 LXX). And David laments and says: ‘I was conceived in iniquity and in sins did my mother conceive me.’ (Ps. 50:7 LXX) The Apostle also declares: ‘For all have sinned and do need the glory of God, being justified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God hath proposed to be a propitiation through faith in his blood’ (Rom. 3:23–25). Wherefore, the pardon of sins is also vouchsafed to them that believe, since the Lord Himself said: “This is my blood of the new testament, which shall be shed for many unto remission of sins (Matt. 26:28).”⁷⁰

St. Augustine says, “For what good work can be prior to faith, when the apostle says, ‘Whatsoever is not of faith is sin’ (Rom.14:23)?”⁷¹

St. Jerome says, “What human medicine could not cure, patience and faith healed . He (Job) sat on a dung heap, but in his soul he was wandering about in Paradise.”⁷²

68 St. Clement of Alexandria , The Stromata, or Miscellanies in David Hazard, You Give Me New Life: A 40day Journey in the Company of the Early Disciples: Devotional Readings (Bethany House, 1995): ch. 4.

69 St. Augustine of Hippo, On the Holy Trinity 8.4(6) (NPNF I/3:118).

70 St. Basil of Caesarea, Concerning Baptism 1.2 (FOTC 9:357–358).

71 St. Augustine, Lectures or Tractates on the Gospel According to St. John 86.2 (NPNF I/7:353).

72 St. Jerome, The Homilies of Saint Jerome, Volume 2 (60–96) Homily 73 (FOTC 48:114).