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On the Parable of the Prodigal Son, from "Remember Thy First Love
(Revelation 2:4/5):
The Three Stages of the Spiritual Life in the Theology of
Saint Sophrony Sakharov of Essex"
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▶"...We have complete confidence in our Heavenly Father Who seeks us out and waits with open arms. Not only does he watch us from afar, He even comes to meet us, desiring to lead us into His Kingdom. Such, then, is the love of the Heavenly Father..."
▶"...A heart filled with the grace of God is in want of nothing for the Lord is its wealth..."
▶“I will arise and go to my father….”
▶“Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee.”
▶“I am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.”
▶"...He never takes His eyes off us: He watches and waits patiently for us to come to ourselves. Only then does He raise us to His own glory..."
▶"...God runs to meet the man who repents, so as to grant him the strength to fulfill his intention to return..."
▶"...Having embraced his son, the father transmits his very life and all his riches to him, as if he had never left home, as if his sins were mere specks of dust on a mirror..."