“The Apostle Paul says from his own experience that it is impossible to convey the beauty of the heavenly world … If this is so, and this is so undoubtedly, then what, in fact, is to regret this local world, which is beautiful only occasionally, and always in this temporary beauty conceals in itself a multitude of all sorts of suffering and all sorts of physical and moral ugliness.”
Sokolov Vasily Alexandrovich, archpriest, holy martyr