HOLY SILENCE

"In order to awaken a sinner from his sleep, the divine saving-grace directs all its power towards the destruction of the main support...

"Release your spirit, give freedom to it, and it will flow towards that from which it was taken - towards God." - St. Theophan the...

"Our spirit, as we have seen, is closed and stifled by many coverings. But by its nature, the human spirit is a spectator of the divine...

"Sometimes one is permitted to feel in a palpable way an invisible power which acts amidst the visible powers and phenomena, but which is...

"Sometimes the other world itself, and particularly its order and main principles, is vividly portrayed in some striking manner in the...

"Sometimes the Lord wishes to send somebody from the other world: either in reality or in dreams, in their own appearance or under some...

"The merciful Lord reveals to the consciousness of the converting sinner His divine world, in which our spirit is appointed to dwell....

"It is remarkable that this grace-given awakening is always accompanied by a startling and by some kind of fright. This startling and...

"When a grace-given awakening takes place in the consciousness of a man... there is an instantaneous destruction of the whole order of...

"The true Christian life is the grace-given life. Self-made life - however beautiful in appearance it may be and to whatever outward...