Why do men learn through pain and suffering, and not through pleasure and happiness? Very simply, because pleasure and happiness accustom one to satisfaction with the things given in this world, whereas pain and suffering drive one to seek a… — Seraphim Rose Copy Share Image
“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 exists and that God is the Jesus Christ of Orthodoxy, and not some other God. I call this moment the… — Seraphim Rose Copy Share
Why is the truth, it would seem, revealed to some and not to others? Is there a special organ for receiving revelation from God?… — Seraphim Rose Copy Share Image
Why do men learn through pain and suffering, and not through pleasure and happiness? Very simply, because pleasure and happiness accustom one to satisfaction… — Seraphim Rose Copy Share Image
“What, more realistically, is this “mutation,” the “new man”? He is the rootless man, discontinuous with a past that Nihilism has destroyed, the raw material of every demagogue’s dream; the “free-thinker” and skeptic, closed only to the truth but “open” to each new intellectual fashion because he himself has no intellectual foundation; the “seeker” after some “new revelation,” ready to… — Seraphim Rose Copy Share
“More profoundly, Nihilist "simplification" may be seen in the universal prestige today accorded the lowest order of knowledge, the scientific, as well as the simplistic ideas of men like Marx, Freud, and Darwin, which underlie virtually the whole of contemporary thought and life. We say "life," for it is important to see that the Nihilist history of our century has… — Seraphim Rose Copy Share
Everything in this life passes away — only God remains, only He is worth struggling towards. We have a choice: to follow the way… — Seraphim Rose Copy Share Image
“A government must rule by the Grace of God or by the will of the people, it must believe in authority or in the Revolution; on these issues compromise is possible only in semblance, and only for a time. The Revolution, like the disbelief which has always accompanied it, cannot be stopped halfway; it is a force that, once awakened,… — Seraphim Rose Copy Share
“It is of course no secret to contemporary philosophers and psychologists that man himself is changing in our violent century, under the influence, of course, not only of war and revolution, but also of practically everything else that lays claim to being "modern" and "progressive." We have already cited the most striking forms of Nihilist Vitalism, whose cumulative effect has… — Seraphim Rose Copy Share
“I would urge us to be not too certain of our accustomed ways of looking at Genesis, and to open ourselves to the wisdom… — Seraphim Rose Copy Share Image
“Now a government is secure insofar as it has God for its foundation and His Will for its guide; but this, surely, is not… — Seraphim Rose Copy Share Image
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… — Seraphim Rose Copy Share Image
“When conversion takes place, the process of revelation occurs in a very simple way — a person is in need, he suffers, and then… — Seraphim Rose Copy Share Image
