“Holy Scripture can be understood rightly only by the pure in heart, for they comprehend the will and purpose of God in the Scripture, but for people with hearts unpurified of passions it is a stumbling-block.”

- Saint John of Valaam, Christ is in Our Midst: Letters From a Russian Monk, p. 58

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