“Many people consider themselves good and beautiful on the outside, but if one glances inside a person one can see so many evils and vices that it seems life is not long enough to mourn for this evil nesting in our soul and corroding it. Therefore the Lord sends us sorrows in order to make us better. The Lord hears every person who appeals for help in woe. Offences are our second teacher. Sending them, the Lord as it were tests us in faith and strengthens us in the warfare with evil.”

(Bishop Benjamin (Milov) )20th Century Russian Hierarch, ex. from ‘Two Teachers’)