Despair Quote by Seraphim Rose

“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

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

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

“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

“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

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

“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