From "Diary of a Russian Priest" p43:
"We have been given a supreme law of life which leads us straight to God -
Love, a difficult and thorny path;
but we must follow it, bearing our cross,
with no excursions into byways."
- Fr. Elchaninov
From "Diary of a Russian Priest":
“It is better to live in such a way that we start with our own personal experience and pass from this to certain general ideas, rather than proceeding visa versa. Otherwise, we shall only be making verbal judgments about the experiences of others, without having experienced these things ourselves: but unfortunately this is precisely what we usually do in spiritual questions.” (Diary, P.41)
