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Repent, for the Lord is coming to judge.
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"Whoever does not deign to attain unity with the last of the saints (i.e. unity in life with those now living, accessible bearers of the Holy Spirit) with all their love and with strong desire through humility, but has
gotten in his relationship with him some small mistrust, he will in no wise ever be united and stand together with them in one rank with the former and the saints who have gone before, although he might think that he has all faith and all love towards God and all the saints. He will be cast out by them as one not able to occupy, with the help of humility, that place which before the ages was appointed him by God."
Saint Symeon the New Theologian
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"Lord, Who knowest Thine own! Thou art righteous and most wise,
concealing them from the world, which is unworthy to know them and which would use
for evil the knowledge of them: but be Thou also good towards them that
although, perhaps, are not yet Thine, but desire to become and remain
Thine; show a sign by which we also who are unknowing, might come to know that
which is good, grace-filled, holy, in one word, that which is Thine in
man, so that more than all else we might love what is Thine, seek out that
which is Thine, learn and follow in that which is Thine, to cleave unto and
be united to that which is Thine, and through unity with Thine own, and subsequently with Thee Thyself, to have that blessed hope and to be invariably Thine for all eternity. Amen."
Prayer of blessed Archbishop Theophan of Poltava (Bystrov)
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