All Seraphim of Sarov Quotes
- The Lord sometimes allows people who are devoted to Him to fall into such dreadful vices; and this is in order to prevent them from… Allows
- The true aim of our Christian life consists in the acquisition of the Holy Spirit of God. As for fasts, and vigils, and prayer, and… Acquiring
- God is a fire that warms and kindles the heart and inward parts. Hence, if we feel in our hearts the cold which comes from… Call
- Prayer, fasting, vigils, and all other Christian practices, however good they may be in themselves, certainly do not constitute the aim of our Christian life:… Acquiring
- You cannot be too gentle, too kind. Shun even to appear harsh in your treatment of each other. Joy, radiant joy, streams from the face… Appear
- Maintain a spirit of peace and you will save a thousand souls. Faith
- Oh, if you only knew what joy, what sweetness awaits a righteous soul in Heaven! You would decide in this mortal life to bear any… Agree
- Acquire a peaceful spirit, and thousands around you will be saved. Acquire
- In spite of our sinfulness, in spite of the darkness surrounding our souls, the Grace of the Holy Spirit, conferred by baptism in the name… Acquisition
- Bear sorrows for the sake of the Heavenly Kingdom. Without sorrows there is no salvation. On the other hand, the Kingdom of God awaits those… Acquire
- That I am a monk and you are a layman is of no importance ... rather that we are both in the light of the… Acquire
- 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 inner… Angelic
- ...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 the… Add
- When a man receives something Divine, in his heart he rejoices; but when he receives something diabolic, he is disturbed. The Christian heart, when it… Anything Else
- ... 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 sake,… All
- ... the people who, in spite of the bonds of sin which fetter them and hinder them (by constraint and by inciting them to new… All
- Every success in anything we should refer to the Lord and with the Prophet say: 'Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to… Christian