“How will it be with us in the future life,
when everything that has gratified us in this world:
riches, honors, food and drink, dress, beautifully furnished dwellings,
and all attractive objects—how will it be,
I say, when all these things leave us—when they will all seem to us a dream,
and when works of faith and virtue,
of abstinence, purity, meekness, humility, mercy, patience, obedience,
and others will be required of us?”
St. John of Kronstadt