Through the Holy Spirit comes our restoration to paradise our ascension into the kingdom of heaven our return to the adoption of sons our liberty to call God our Father our being made partakers of the grace of Christ our being called children of light our sharing in eternal glory and in a word our being brought into a state of all fullness of blessing both in this world and in the world to come of all the good gifts that are in store for us by promise hereof through faith beholding the reflection of their grace as though they were already present we await the full enjoyment. – St Basil the Great#church fathers #orthodoxy #orthopraxis