Metropolitan Veniamin (Fedchenkov) said shortly before his death......

Metropolitan Veniamin (Fedchenkov) said shortly before his death (these words were quoted by Archimandrite John Krestiankin in the preface to the book of his letters): "The longer I live, the more I understand that we are all absolutely useless to anyone but God." We are needed only by Him who does not need us. Here is such a paradoxical thing."