9 March 2020
True Hope
If a man has no worries about himself at all for the sake of love toward God
and the working of good deeds, knowing that God is taking care of him, this
is a true and wise hope. But if a man takes care of his own business and turns
to God in prayer only when misfortunes come upon him which are beyond
his power, and then he begins to hope in God, such a hope is vain and false.
A true hope seeks only the Kingdom of God... the heart can have no peace
until it obtains such a hope. This hope pacifies the heart and produces joy
within it.
Saint Seraphim of Sarov
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