“Among spiritual writings you should read especially those addressed to people living in the world, or which give the ABCs of spiritual life—such as St. John of Kronstadt’s ‘My Life in Christ’, ‘St. Nikodemos’ Unseen Warfare’, the Lives of Saints in general, and Bishop Ignatius Brianchaninovs The Arena (… suitable for laymen insofar as it gives in general the ABCs of spiritual life as applied to modern times).
(Fr. Seraphim Rose in ‘Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future’)
 
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