“All of this somehow reminds me forcibly that just as our Savior could say of Nathaniel that here is a true Israelite in whom there is no guile – so too there is such a thing as a true American: an honest, forthright, normal person for whom Holy Orthodoxy is quite natural; and the harvest of these true Americans is only the beginning. Doubtless the Orthodox Americans will be few in number, but is precisely the best part of America which is waiting to hear the glad tidings of Orthodoxy…”

Seraphim Rose

~Life and Works