SO GOOD QUOTES

​​Many of you, all of us have sins – that we can’t get over, we can’t change. Happens to all of us. Some of us have sins that are very pernicious, very shameful to us, very repetitive.

Things that we can’t even whisper to ourselves, maybe not even whisper to the priest. And how do you get over such things?

You cannot overcome your sins by your own efforts, and by prostrations, by repentance and all the rest. You can’t do it. It is by the grace of God that you overcome your sins. And God has to be in the heart for you to overcome your sins and God is love. So if we love, as well as do the repentance, absolutely. It’s all necessary.

—Fr. Seraphim Holland