What are you to us, you who are cut off from God, a fugitive for Heaven, and a slave of evil? You dare not do anything to us: Christ, the Son of God, has dominion over us and over all.… — Seraphim of Sarov Copy Share Image
...it is up to us to add labors to labors in order to go from strength to strength (Ps. 83:7), and to come to… — Seraphim of Sarov Copy Share Image
Can one, seeing the sun with one's sensuous eyes, not rejoice? But how much more joyful it is when the mind sees with its… — Seraphim of Sarov Copy Share Image
Whatever you do, do it gently and unhurriedly, because virtue is not a pear to be eaten in one bite. — Seraphim of Sarov Copy Share Image
... only the good deed done for Christ's sake brings us the fruits of the Holy Spirit. All that is not done for Christ's… — Seraphim of Sarov Copy Share Image
The true aim of our Christian life consists in the acquisition of the Holy Spirit of God. — Seraphim of Sarov Copy Share Image
The reading of the word of God should be performed in solitude, in order that the whole mind of the reader might be plunged… — Seraphim of Sarov Copy Share Image
Oh, if you only knew what joy, what sweetness awaits a righteous soul in Heaven! You would decide in this mortal life to bear… — Seraphim of Sarov Copy Share Image
You cannot be too gentle, too kind. Shun even to appear harsh in your treatment of each other. Joy, radiant joy, streams from the… — Seraphim of Sarov Copy Share Image
God is a fire that warms and kindles the heart and inward parts. Hence, if we feel in our hearts the cold which comes… — Seraphim of Sarov Copy Share Image
The body is a slave, the soul a sovereign, and therefore it is due to Divine mercy when the body is worn out by… — Seraphim of Sarov Copy Share Image
If a man has no worries about himself at all for the sake of love toward God and the working of good deeds, knowing… — Seraphim of Sarov Copy Share Image
