Prayer Fasting Quotes by Seraphim of Sarov

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• The Lord sometimes allows people who are devoted to Him to fall into such dreadful vices; and this is in order to…
• The true aim of our Christian life consists in the acquisition of the Holy Spirit of God. As for fasts, and vigils,…
• God is a fire that warms and kindles the heart and inward parts. Hence, if we feel in our hearts the cold…
• Prayer, fasting, vigils, and all other Christian practices, however good they may be in themselves, certainly do not constitute the aim of…
• You cannot be too gentle, too kind. Shun even to appear harsh in your treatment of each other. Joy, radiant joy, streams…
• Maintain a spirit of peace and you will save a thousand souls.
• Oh, if you only knew what joy, what sweetness awaits a righteous soul in Heaven! You would decide in this mortal life…
• Acquire a peaceful spirit, and thousands around you will be saved.
• In spite of our sinfulness, in spite of the darkness surrounding our souls, the Grace of the Holy Spirit, conferred by baptism…
• Bear sorrows for the sake of the Heavenly Kingdom. Without sorrows there is no salvation. On the other hand, the Kingdom of…
• That I am a monk and you are a layman is of no importance ... rather that we are both in the…
• Can one, seeing the sun with one's sensuous eyes, not rejoice? But how much more joyful it is when the mind sees…

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