"Do not worry too much about how spiritually poor you are................."

[Nick1000]

"Do not worry too much about how spiritually poor you are. God sees that, but for you it is expected to trust in God and to pray to Him as best you can, never to fall into despair and to struggle according to your strength."

--Father Seraphim Rose

 

[ArmyMatt]

amen!

 

[archer75]

"Do not worry too much about how spiritually poor you are. God sees that, but for you it is expected to trust in God and to pray to Him as best you can, never to fall into despair and to struggle according to your strength."

--Father Seraphim Rose

Do you know what this is from?

 

[Nick1000]

Do you know what this is from?

Fr. Seraphim Rose

Pastoral Guidance - Chapter 84 from Father Seraphim Rose: His Life and Works

Following the teaching of the Holy Fathers, Fr. Seraphim counseled people not to be quick to calculate and measure their own spiritual state. In 1975 he wrote to an Orthodox convert:

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 Him as best you can, never to fall into despair, and to struggle according to your strength. If you ever begin to think you are spiritually “well off”—then you can know for sure that you aren’t! True spiritual life, even on the most elementary level, is always accompanied by suffering and difficulties. Therefore you should rejoice in all your difficulties and sorrows. [12]