Saint Seraphim of Sarov:

Saint Seraphim of Sarov: "The Lord revealed to me, the humble Seraphim, that there will be great misfortunes in the Russian land. The Orthodox faith will be trampled upon, and the prelates of the Church of God and another clergy will be turned away from the purity of Orthodoxy. And for this, the Lord will punish them severely. I, the wretched Seraphim, have begged the Lord earnestly for three days and three nights, that He might deprive me of the Kingdom of Heaven, and grant forgiveness to them."

But the Lord replied, "I will not give forgiveness to them, for they teach doctrines, commandments of men, and with their tongue they honour Me, but their heart is far from Me."


 

The holy elder Paisios the Athonite (+1994):

"They get together and meet and have endless discussions about things that are not fit for discussion, which even the Holy Fathers have not discussed for so many years. All these actions are of the evil one, to stupefy and scandalize the faithful and to push some into heresy and others into schisms, and for the devil to gain ground. Pa, pa... they torment and confuse the world, these people!

...Some of the Orthodox who are frivolous and want to make a projection, a "mission", call conferences with heterodox, to make a fuss and think that they will thus promote Orthodoxy, that is, by becoming a troublemaker with the malodor.

Then the pro-religionists begin and go to the other extreme; they also say blasphemous things about the Mysteries of the New Calendarists, etc., and mock souls who have piety and Orthodox sensitivity. The heterodox, on the other hand, come to the conferences, play the teacher, take whatever good spiritual material they find in the Orthodox, put it through their own workshop, put on their own color and firmament, and present it as an original. And the strange world of today is moved by such strange things

and is then spiritually destroyed.

But the Lord will, when he must, present Marcus the Noble and Gregorian Palamas, who will gather all of our mischievous brethren together, to confess the Orthodox faith and to establish Tradition, and to give great joy to our Mother Church