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Brother R. told me how once when he lay seriously ill his mother said to his father: ‘How ill our little lad is! I would gladly let myself be cut in pieces if it would help him and ease his suffering.’ The Lord’s love for man is like that. He said: ‘Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his fellow.’ The Lord’s compassion for us was so strong that He wanted to suffer for us, as a mother suffers, and even more. But no man can conceive of this great love without the grace of the Holy Spirit. The Scriptures tell of this love but neither are they to be understood by the mind, for in the Scriptures too speaks the same Holy Spirit.
Saint Silouan the Athonite, Wisdom from Mount Athos
