Fr Pavel Florensky
By all sorts of paths God leads man to such an understanding, to a knowledge of his holiness. Sometimes this takes place through a great trial… And at other times—a great undeserved happiness, a sharp joy which pierces through the whole being and overwhelms the soul, ripping off the despised cover which encloses it.
Originally published in Sobornost, Journal of the Fellowship of St Alban & St Sergius, June 1928.
