SO GOOD QUOTES

Within the repentant person there is first fear, then the lightness of hope; sorrow, then comfort; terror to the point of despair, then the breath of the consolation of mercy. One thing replaces another, and this supplies or keeps a person who is in a state of corruption or parting with life in the hope, however, of receiving new life.

—St. Theophan the Recluse,The Path to Salvation: A Manual of Spiritual Transformation