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<blockquote data-quote="Mentun" data-source="post: 1567243" data-attributes="member: 17965">Do not trust your mind too much; thinking must be refined by suffering, or it will not stand the test of these cruel times.Of course, one can always act wrong even on a clear conscience! But even that is not a fatal mistake as long as ones mind and heart remain open and one keeps first things first.How much our American Orthodoxy needs more heart and not so much mind! I don&#039;t know any answer for it, except more prayer and basic education in Orthodox sources.Orthodox Christians, surrounded by and already swimming in a sea of humanist-worldly philosophy and practice, must do everything possible to create their own islands, in that sea, of other-worldly, God-oriented thought and practice.Psychological trials of dwellers in the last times will equal the physical trials of the martyrs. But in order to face these trials we must be living in a different world.Do you have a notebook for taking down quotes from Holy Fathers in your reading? Do you always have a book of Holy Fathers that you are reading and can turn to in a moment of gloom? Start now—this is essential!Now one cannot be a half-hearted Christian, but only entirely or not at all. - Father Seraphim Rose, <a href="http://orthodoxinfo.com/praxis/frseraphimspeaks.aspx" target="_blank">http://orthodoxinfo.com/praxis/frseraphimspeaks.aspx</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mentun, post: 1567243, member: 17965"] Do not trust your mind too much; thinking must be refined by suffering, or it will not stand the test of these cruel times. Of course, one can always act wrong even on a clear conscience! But even that is not a fatal mistake as long as ones mind and heart remain open and one keeps first things first. How much our American Orthodoxy needs more heart and not so much mind! I don't know any answer for it, except more prayer and basic education in Orthodox sources. Orthodox Christians, surrounded by and already swimming in a sea of humanist-worldly philosophy and practice, must do everything possible to create their own islands, in that sea, of other-worldly, God-oriented thought and practice. [B]Psychological trials of dwellers in the last times will equal the physical trials of the martyrs. But in order to face these trials we must be living in a different world.[/B] Do you have a notebook for taking down quotes from Holy Fathers in your reading? Do you always have a book of Holy Fathers that you are reading and can turn to in a moment of gloom? Start now—this is essential! Now one cannot be a half-hearted Christian, but only entirely or not at all. - Father Seraphim Rose, [URL]http://orthodoxinfo.com/praxis/frseraphimspeaks.aspx[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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