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> [“And suddenly there came a second, when somehow for the first time I saw (as if a door had opened from a dark room into the sunny street), and in the next second I already knew for sure that God…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seraphim-rose/and-suddenly-there-came-a-second-when-somehow-for-the-first-time-i/)

[Seraphim Rose](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seraphim-rose/)

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## More by Seraphim Rose

> [“And suddenly there came a second, when somehow for the first time I saw (as if a door had opened from a dark room…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seraphim-rose/and-suddenly-there-came-a-second-when-somehow-for-the-first-time-i/)

[Seraphim Rose](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seraphim-rose/)

> [Why is the truth, it would seem, revealed to some and not to others? Is there a special organ for receiving revelation from God?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seraphim-rose/why-is-the-truth-it-would-seem-revealed-to-some-and-not-to-others-is/)

[Seraphim Rose](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seraphim-rose/)

> [Why do men learn through pain and suffering, and not through pleasure and happiness? Very simply, because pleasure and happiness accustom one to satisfaction…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seraphim-rose/why-do-men-learn-through-pain-and-suffering-and-not-through-pleasure/)

[Seraphim Rose](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seraphim-rose/)

> [“What, more realistically, is this “mutation,” the “new man”? He is the rootless man, discontinuous with a past that Nihilism has destroyed, the raw…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seraphim-rose/what-more-realistically-is-this-mutation-the-new-man-he-is-the/)

[Seraphim Rose](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seraphim-rose/)

> [“More profoundly, Nihilist "simplification" may be seen in the universal prestige today accorded the lowest order of knowledge, the scientific, as well as the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seraphim-rose/more-profoundly-nihilist-simplification-may-be-seen-in-the-universal/)

[Seraphim Rose](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seraphim-rose/)

> [Everything in this life passes away — only God remains, only He is worth struggling towards. We have a choice: to follow the way…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seraphim-rose/everything-in-this-life-passes-away-only-god-remains-only-he-is-worth/)

[Seraphim Rose](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seraphim-rose/)

> [“A government must rule by the Grace of God or by the will of the people, it must believe in authority or in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seraphim-rose/a-government-must-rule-by-the-grace-of-god-or-by-the-will-of-the/)

[Seraphim Rose](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seraphim-rose/)

> [“It is of course no secret to contemporary philosophers and psychologists that man himself is changing in our violent century, under the influence, of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seraphim-rose/it-is-of-course-no-secret-to-contemporary-philosophers-and/)

[Seraphim Rose](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seraphim-rose/)

> [“I would urge us to be not too certain of our accustomed ways of looking at Genesis, and to open ourselves to the wisdom…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seraphim-rose/i-would-urge-us-to-be-not-too-certain-of-our-accustomed-ways-of/)

[Seraphim Rose](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seraphim-rose/)

> [“Now a government is secure insofar as it has God for its foundation and His Will for its guide; but this, surely, is not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seraphim-rose/now-a-government-is-secure-insofar-as-it-has-god-for-its-foundation/)

[Seraphim Rose](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seraphim-rose/)

> [Don't worry too much about how spiritually poor you are\_God sees that,but for you it is expected to trust in God and pray to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seraphim-rose/don-t-worry-too-much-about-how-spiritually-poor-you-are-god-sees-that/)

[Seraphim Rose](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seraphim-rose/)

> [“When conversion takes place, the process of revelation occurs in a very simple way — a person is in need, he suffers, and then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seraphim-rose/when-conversion-takes-place-the-process-of-revelation-occurs-in-a/)

[Seraphim Rose](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seraphim-rose/)

> [“Whole idea of progress - that presence is based on the past, that future generations are going to improve our achievements, and that man…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seraphim-rose/whole-idea-of-progress-that-presence-is-based-on-the-past-that-future/)

[Seraphim Rose](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seraphim-rose/)

> [Don't worry too much about how spiritually poor you are. God sees that, but for you it is expected to trust in God and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seraphim-rose/don-t-worry-too-much-about-how-spiritually-poor-you-are-god-sees-that-2/)

[Seraphim Rose](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seraphim-rose/)

> [We who are given the fullness of true Christianity are obliged to be working on ourselves, to be watching the signs of the times,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seraphim-rose/we-who-are-given-the-fullness-of-true-christianity-are-obliged-to-be/)

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