Saturday, October 19, 2013

Although, let us be honest, merely conversing with people who have gotten themselves hopelessly lost in this cold world, and what's worse, in their own selves, is not enough to transform them. For transformation, you need to show them hope, show them the opening to a new life, a new world, in which meaninglessness, suffering, and cruel injustice do not triumph, but where, reigning omnipotent over everything, are faith, hope, and love. And then you need not only show them this new world from afar, pointing towards it, but you need to bring them to thus world by yourself. You need to take them by the hand to the physical presence of The Lord God Himself. Only then will they recognize Him, the One Whom they have long truly loved deep inside their hearts, their one and only Creator, Savior, and Father. Only then will life truly be transformed.

- Archimandrite Tikhon, Everyday Saints and Other Stories

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