The Wise Sayings and Counsel of Saint Seraphim of Sarov

 “I know your troubles, your sufferings, your struggles and the weaknesses of your life. I know your cowardice, your sins, and despite it, I say to you, “Give me your heart, love me as you are!” If you wait to become an angel to surrender to love, then you will never love me.

If you are weak in the fulfillment of your duties and in the exercise of your virtues, and if you often fall into those sins that you no longer want to do, I allow you to love me. Love me the way you are! ”

– Sv. Serafim Sarovski, Love me the way you are

• Drink where the horse drinks: The horse never drinks bad water.
• Fit the bed where the cat sneaks in.
• Eat fruit, touched by the worm.
• Feel free to pick the mushrooms the fly is on.
• Plant a tree where the mole digs.
• Build the house where the snake heats.
• Dig a well where birds nest when it’s hot.
• Get up and lie down with the hens – you’ll have the golden grain of the day.
• Eat more green and you will have strong legs and a strong heart, like a beast.
• Swim more often and you’ll feel like a fish in the water.
• Look to the sky more often than under your feet – and your thoughts will be clear and light.
• Be more silent than talkative – Silence will settle in your Spirit, and your Spirit will be Peaceful.
• Remove sin and disease will be removed, because they are given to us because of sins.
• Who overcomes illness with patience and gratitude, by doing so she changes place with a feat or even more.
• On bread and water, no one has complained yet.
• One can take communion on earth and remain as without communion in Heaven.
• Buy a broom to sweep the cell more often, because as your cell is cleansed, so will your soul be cleansed.
• There is no worse sin, and there is nothing more terrible and more pernicious than the  spirit of sadness.
• One should move away from the sorrow, and make sure that one has a joyful spirit, not a sad one.
• From joy one can do whatever one wants to do, from inner tension nothing.
• True faith cannot be without good deeds: whoever truly believes, surely does good deeds
• .If a man knew what the Lord had prepared for him in the Kingdom of Heaven, he would be ready to spend his whole life in a worm pit.
• More fasting and prayer is obedience, it is effort.
• Peace can subjugate the whole world.
• The abbot (and even more the bishop) should have not only a paternal but also a maternal heart.
• The world lies in evil, we need to know it, remember it, go beyond away from it as far as possible.
• Thousands of people live with you in the world, but reveal your secret to one in thousands.
• If the family is destroyed, then the country will collapse and the peoples will be perverted.
• As an iron is to smith, so did I surrender myself and my will to the Lord God: as it pleases him; I do not have my will, and what pleases God, I also convey.

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