«… With the help of grace, the majority of humanity will enter the Kingdom of Heaven without experiencing hell. … Because the divine nature of God is so good and so merciful that it always seeks to find the most insignificant ways to correct us. …

 And what is a merciful heart? It is a heart that burns for all creation, that is, for people, for birds, for animals, for demons, and for every creature.

 Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeev, with exceptional discernment and insight, selects and comments on the texts of the great ascetic Saint Isaac of Syria, which we considered lost for a long time, and presents to us a major figure of our faith in the first person.

 Texts that touch, teach, and soften our hearts even today, whether we struggle in the desert or fight in the world.

 Saint Isaac speaks to us about repentance and humility, prayer, community, monasticism and silence, wonder, ecstasy, and the culmination of all these, which is the love of God and love for our neighbor.