At every hour we must weigh our daily affairs attentively, and as much as we are able, without fail lighten their burden through repentance, if we want to overcome the passions with the help of Jesus. It is also necessary to examine whether we carry out all our outward actions through God’s will, before God and for God Alone, so that the feelings (passionate) do not deceive us like foolish people.
- Saint Hesychius
Whoever has known the love of God loves the whole world and never murmurs against his fate, for the burden of sorrow for the sake of God gains eternal joy.
- St. Silouan the Athonite
A Helper and a Protector has become salvation to me. This is my God, Whom I will glorify. God of my fathers I will exalt Him for in glory was He glorified. Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy on me.
- Canon of St. Andrew of Crete, excerpt
Prayer is grace. God gives it when there exists zeal and humility… Let Christ not be missing from your heart.
- Elder Amphilochios of Patmos
Some days ago, I had asked for your prayers during Holy Week, as I am waiting an aswer from God at a very important issue for my life.
Please, wherever you are, stop and say a little prayer for me, that God will hear my prayers and He’ll reply…
God bless you all!
God give is the strength to pursue the path of crucifixion; there is not other way to be Christian.
- Fr. Seraphim Rose
Everything in this life passes away. Only God remains, only He is worth struggling towards. We have a choice: to follow the way of this world, of the society that surrounds us, and thereby find ourselves outside of God; or to choose the way of life, to choose God Who calls us and for Whom our heart is searching.
- Fr. Seraphim Rose
We have very little faith in the Lord, very little trust. If we trusted the Lord as much as we trust a friend when we ask him to do something for us, neither we as individuals nor our whole country would suffer so much.
- Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica, “Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives: The Life and Teachings of Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica”
When the mind and heart are united in prayer and the soul’s thoughts are not dispersed, the heart is warmed by spiritual warmth in which the light of Christ shines, making the whole inner man peaceful and joyous.
- St. Seraphim of Sarov
If we want, Christian, to have our heart filled with divine love we must first empty them of the love of this world, its frivilous and sinful customs and then turn our hearts to the one God, our only good and happiness and eternal beatitude.
- Saint Tikhon of Zadonsk
Holy Relics are the earthly remains of those who have been taught by none other than Christ Himself to love their enemies even unto death, the death of the Cross, which is His glory, and which by grace becomes their glory too. Love for enemies is not a moral injunction, it is the fundamental criterion for the Christian way of life. This is Salvation.
- St. Silouan the Athonite
The men who wrong us, do not so by themselves, but by the extent of the allowance of God, because they are an instrument of God.
- St. Macarius of Optina
All Christians… when rising from sleep must first think of and remember Christ. Let every pious man continually repeat this Name as a prayer in his mind and with his tongue. Let him always constrain himself to do this while standing, travelling, sitting, resting, speaking, and doing all things. Then he shall find great peace and joy…
- Archbishop Simeon of Thessalonica
After all, why does the world suffer?…emptiness and the absence of God lie behind this, because every passion is the fruit of emptiness, the fruit of the lack of desire to move towards faith and God.
- Igumen Tikhon Borisov, 21st Century Russian monk
The soul that really loves God and Christ, though it may do ten thousand righteousnesses, esteems itself as having wrought nothing, by reason of its insatiable aspiration after God. Though it should exhaust the body with fastings, with watchings, its attitude towards the virtues is as if it had not yet even begun to labour for them.
- Saint Macarius the Great (295-392 A.D)
