God's Revelation to the Human Heart Paperback – February 1, 2007

This book is an amazing read. It’s not very long so you can finish it pretty fast, and it is very valuable for the price. The book speaks about Father Seraphim Rose’s talk with college kid seeking religion. I must encourage everyone reading this review, go out and purchase this book. It’s only $5, the price of a coffee, and your return on the book will be much greater than the investment.

This short yet insightful book brings about a more grace filled understanding of whom God us and how He works in man’s’ heart. The typical legalistic approach that western Christianity takes leaves one in an unending spiral of black and white understanding of God. Father Seraphim Rose confirms the heart of God Himself to us in this short piece. God’s grace takes many forms and yet who are we to judge another for how God will judge him? This is a humbling writing and it has granted me inner peace for myself and those around me that God’s grace is not black and white, it is not legalistic. But it is only up to Him to make the last call.

Amazing, quick read. I recommend everything by Fr Rose that has been published, and this is no exception.

On the internet, you'll find many debates between Christians of various denominations about which denomination is the true church, and if there even is a true church.Usually, polemists will point to their denomination as having security, prosperity, moments in history, etc etc... but what Fr. Seraphim Rose reveals in this lecture is a story about a young man who was interested in Orthodoxy because of the suffering that Orthodox Christians endured.And this makes so much sense. Suffering tests faith, and steadfast perseverance through suffering is probably the best testimony to purity of faith and doctrine.A quick read, but very insightful and helpful for seekers and those interested in Orthodoxy.

Worth reading and buying

There is MUCH value in this short book that takes no more than a couple of hours to read. It elaborates on the importance of having a loving heart and seeking objective truth over subjective experiences. Fr Seraphim draws from a wide variety of sources—from lives of saints to contemporary communist gulag survivors’ anecdotes. It’s hard to put it down before finishing it, a real page turner.

It made me think very simply and made me understand what it means to have a spiritual rebirth, and or how suffering helps you become closer to God, Best book.

Every now and then my spirit needs a bit of help from a wiser source. While it is not difficult to find interesting agile minds willing to share and inform on an academic plane, it can be frustrating to seek out a wiser spirit.Father Seraphim's book, God's Revelation to the Human Heart points to this confusion from the opposite direction. It is the transcription of a talk he gave to a comparative religion class thirty years ago. The audience of university students, naturally, had been trained to formulate, then respond to their own, intellectual questions about matters best addressed in a spiritual plane. Thus, from their recorded interaction with Father Seraphim, we sense a group perhaps frustrated by a spiritual revelation offered to those expecting an intellectual meal. But perhaps, Father Seraphim's fluent presentation of spiritual wisdom allowed a few of the students to find "ears to hear" and sustenance for a more deep-seated hunger.For myself, Father Seraphim's gentle and profoundly true talk to the students provides simple cleansing necessary after periods of frustrating and confounding immersion in the concerns of our fallen world. I recommend this work to anyone who has learned that the intellect provides only shallow answers and who wants a clear picture of how the light of orthodox Christian spirituality illuminates a spiritual path through a clouded mundane landscape. Here, one can find Answers without necessarily understanding any "answers."