Lew☦️ on Nostr: This is the last passage from St. Seraphim Rose's "Nihilism": "We must again be ...
This is the last passage from St. Seraphim Rose's "Nihilism":
"We must again be Christians. It is futile, in fact it is precisely absurd, to speak of reforming society, of changing the path of history, of emerging into an age beyond absurdity, if we have not Christ in our hearts; and if we do not have Christ in our hearts, nothing else matters.
It is of course possible that there may be an age beyond absurdity; is is more likely perhaps -and Christians must always be prepared for this eventuality- that there will not be, and that the age of absurdity is indeed the last age. If may be that the final testimony Christians may be able to give in this age will be the ultimate testimony, the blood of their martyrdom.
But this is cause for rejoicing and not for despair. For the hope of Christians is not in this world or in any of its kingdoms--that hope, indeed, is the ultimate absurdity; the hope of Christians is in the Kingdom of God which is not of this world."
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"We must again be Christians. It is futile, in fact it is precisely absurd, to speak of reforming society, of changing the path of history, of emerging into an age beyond absurdity, if we have not Christ in our hearts; and if we do not have Christ in our hearts, nothing else matters.
It is of course possible that there may be an age beyond absurdity; is is more likely perhaps -and Christians must always be prepared for this eventuality- that there will not be, and that the age of absurdity is indeed the last age. If may be that the final testimony Christians may be able to give in this age will be the ultimate testimony, the blood of their martyrdom.
But this is cause for rejoicing and not for despair. For the hope of Christians is not in this world or in any of its kingdoms--that hope, indeed, is the ultimate absurdity; the hope of Christians is in the Kingdom of God which is not of this world."
#Christianity #Orthodoxy #biblestr