“Often one hears from converts after some years of seemingly unfruitful struggles that ‘I didn’t know what I was getting into when I became Orthodox.’ Some sense this when they are first exposed to the Orthodox Faith, and this can cause them to postpone their encounter with Orthodoxy or even run away from it entirely…this is a result of the deep commitment required of those who are serious about the Orthodox Faith – a commitment that is quite different in kind from that of those who merely join a new denomination…”

(Fr. Seraphim Rose+, 20th Century American Convert and Theologian)