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… — Seraphim Rose Copy Share Image
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… — Seraphim Rose Copy Share Image
“More profoundly, Nihilist "simplification" may be seen in the universal prestige today accorded the lowest order of knowledge, the scientific, as well as the… — Seraphim Rose Copy Share Image
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… — Seraphim Rose Copy Share Image
“It is of course no secret to contemporary philosophers and psychologists that man himself is changing in our violent century, under the influence, of… — Seraphim Rose Copy Share Image
“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
