Too Soon

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"Most of the truly people in the world are those who came out of hell too soon, taking the evil way as the only exit. Many of the most truly holy people in the world saw it through, remaining in deadness rather than follow the renewal of life offered by evil. They waited in the tomb...

...Through the Passion of Christ, the heart leaps, the heart is raised up, the heart is handed over, the heart gives away and the heart goes all the way... The way of the heart is too terrible and wonderful for any words. Its rewards are beyond all imagining.

To be one of those fiery ones suffering for the saving of the world, out of love for the world, is the heart's fullness, the answer to its anguished questions, the joy of victory, the peace that passes all understanding. The heart is a warrior, and this is the heart's only rest.

Praise be to the Passion of Christ."

Dr. Jamie Moran in "Spiritual War" (Raising Lazarus: Integral Healing in Orthodox Christianity ed. Stephen Muse)

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