“As the poor ask charity of the rich, and cannot live without help· from them, so also in the spiritual order the poor must have recourse to the rich. We are the spiritually poor, whilst the saints, and those who shine even in this present life by their faith and piety, are the spiritually rich. It is to them that we needy ones must have recourse.”
(St John of  Kronstadt, ‘My Life in Christ’)