Don’t you consider absent-mindedness a sin? It’s a loss of attention, and the Savior referred to it when He spoke about the seed that fell on the way, and when He said to the Apostle Peter: "Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat" (Lk 22:31).

St. John of Kronstadt
From the book: Conversations of Archpriest John of Kronstadt with Abbess Taisia, Sretensky Monastery, 2022