“A compassionate, loving, and merciful heart is a sign of restoration of human nature to its original integrity.
👉Such a heart bears the unity of all humanity and the cosmos.👈
Everything lives in a compassionate heart—people, animals, plants, and all organic and inorganic matter.
Thus, the believer becomes like God.
Like Christ, he is no longer separated from anything or anyone, because he bears all things within himself. Nothing is external and alien to him anymore, and he is not indifferent to anything anymore.
❤️He feels responsible for everyone and for everything that happens in humanity and in the universe. human nature to its original integrity.❤️…A believer who has acquired a compassionate heart resolutely sets himself up to serve his neighbors, with whom Christ identifies Himself.”
—Metropolitan Serafim Joanta, St. Isaac the Syrian
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