Bites Quote by Seraphim of Sarov

...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…

— Seraphim of Sarov

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…

— Seraphim of Sarov

Maintain a spirit of peace and you will save a thousand souls.

— Seraphim of Sarov

... 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…

— Seraphim of Sarov

The true aim of our Christian life consists in the acquisition of the Holy Spirit of God.

— Seraphim of Sarov

The reading of the word of God should be performed in solitude, in order that the whole mind of the reader might be plunged…

— Seraphim of Sarov

Oh, if you only knew what joy, what sweetness awaits a righteous soul in Heaven! You would decide in this mortal life to bear…

— Seraphim of Sarov

You cannot be too gentle, too kind. Shun even to appear harsh in your treatment of each other. Joy, radiant joy, streams from the…

— Seraphim of Sarov

God is a fire that warms and kindles the heart and inward parts. Hence, if we feel in our hearts the cold which comes…

— Seraphim of Sarov

The body is a slave, the soul a sovereign, and therefore it is due to Divine mercy when the body is worn out by…

— Seraphim of Sarov

If a man has no worries about himself at all for the sake of love toward God and the working of good deeds, knowing…

— Seraphim of Sarov

The Lord sometimes allows people who are devoted to Him to fall into such dreadful vices; and this is in order to prevent them…

— Seraphim of Sarov