A year with the holy righteous John of Kronstadt. Divine Mercytranslated

“Oh, the ineffable mercy of God! O longsuffering! O wisdom and infinite truth of God! The Lord has given us so much infinitely, but what have we brought or are we bringing to Him in gratitude? His accursed, insensitive, insane, multi-passionate, evil life.”

“I am a man, and the mercy, truth and righteousness of God continuously operate in me. God either has mercy and comforts, or punishes and saddens me with sorrows for my internal spiritual movements that are contrary to Him. But the earth is full of people like me. This means that in them the Lord reveals His mercy, truth and righteousness, just as in me. He produces all things in all.”

“When you pray for the forgiveness of your sins, always be strengthened by faith and trust in God’s mercy, which is always ready to forgive our sins through sincere prayer, and be afraid in every way, lest despair settle in your heart, expressed by a heavy despondency of the heart and forced tears.”

“We are all, all sinners and in need of God’s mercy. If the blood of the Lamb of God, who took upon himself the sins of the world, had not interceded for us, then every day and hour the blows of heavenly justice would have thundered over us; we would be in poverty every day and would die with our sinful soul, and we would have neither peace nor joy forever. But for us...