Do not neglect to acquire the New Testament. Your eternal masters should be the gospels, the Acts and the epistles. And if you feel sad, refer to the New Testament, as if it were a pharmacy.
Agios Ioannis Chrysostomos
The Bible is the arsenal of the Christian.
Saint Basil the Great
You should know that without temptation you are far from the way of God and you do not walk in the path of the saints.
Saint Isaac of Syria
The Bible is the means not to drown. It is absolutely necessary that we should constantly be armed with the Bible and take all the effective drugs against so many evil.
Agios Ioannis Chrysostomos
Indolence is the husband of sleep and sloth is the mother of hunger.
St. Gregory the Theologian
It is necessary to pray always and incessantly the one who is in sorrow and the one who lives in comfort.
Agios Ioannis Chrysostomos
A very large amount of money brings sinful pleasures and innumerable evils.
Agios Ioannis Chrysostomos
We should not hate heretics, but heresy, not man, but the evil act, the corrupt opinion.
Agios Ioannis Chrysostomos
We should be happy, instead of being afraid, that our children will struggle to achieve something, because in that way they will be praised.
Saint Basil the Great
If one does not have the conviction that one is a sinner, God does not listen to this person.
Gerontiko (Abbas Moses, 16)
We will be asked to account for not every reason and act, but also every year, even for every moment and minute of the hour.
St. Gregory the Theologian
The people who belong to the Church of Christ belong to the truth and those who do not belong to the truth do not belong to the Church of Christ.
Saint Gregory Palamas
*The article was originally published in Greek in ikivotos.gr
