«… With the help of grace, the majority of humanity will enter the Kingdom of Heaven without the experience of hell. … For 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 for the heart to burn for all of creation, that is, for humans, and birds, and animals, and demons, and for every creature.»  Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev, with exceptional discernment and insight, selects and comments on texts by the great ascetic Saint Isaac the Syrian, which we long considered lost, and presents us with a great 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 within 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.