“How great is God’s compassion to our misery, that is to say, our inattention to His care for us, when God says: ‘Behold, I stand at the door and knock’ meaning by ‘door’ the course of our life which has not yet been closed by death! Oh, how I wish, your Godliness, that in this life you may always be in the Spirit of God! ‘In whatsoever I find you, in that will I judge you,’ says the Lord.”
(St. Seraphim of Sarov, ‘Conversation with Motovilov’)