St Sophrony, „Born from on High”

 The world continues to live in the vicious circle of problems on the animal level

„Through Him the most wondrous mystery was disclosed to us: God is a Personal Being, and furthermore, not only one Person, but a Trinity of Hypostases. We have been baptised ‘with the Holy Spirit and with fire’ (Matt. 3:11), ‘in the name ofthe Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit’ (Matt. 28:19). Enlightened by this knowledge, we now know the way to eternal perfection (cf. Matt. 5:48). But the world continues to live in the vicious circle of problems on the animal level: live in the vicious circle of problems on the animal level: economic, ethnic, racial, problems of class and other such. Does this not happen because men ‘loved darkness rather than light’  (John 3:19)? Is it not because they did not desire with all their strength to become like Him, following Him by keeping His commandments? Is it not because they did not believe that God ordained in His pre-etemal will His intention to bestow on us immortal life with Him? Thus we have condemned ourselves to corruption and the sentence of death”.

 St Sophrony, „Born from on High”