When the grace of God will come

 

 

 In the depth of your being, in your soul, it is important to feel like this, “What am I my Lord? I am nothing. I am a big zero. Indeed, not only a zero, but a sinful zero”. And then the grace of God will come to you and thanks to it, you will become a spiritual man out of nothing. Don’t be afraid to look at your sinfulness for what it is; and at the same time, believe in God’s mercy and compassion. God wants to save all men. He loves you, too and saves you, too.

 

This is how to be truly humble and have hope of salvation.

 

When a drop, a beam of the Holy Spirit’s grace comes into the soul, it becomes a sun that dries out, wipes out and eliminates all things that seem terrible, all things that concern us and into which we sink. And it wipes out the things that blacken the soul so thoroughly, as if they never existed

 

 Archimandrite Symeon Kragiopoulos (†)