“A sin is deadly for those who do not repent. No one is as good and as gracious as God. Even God will not forgive the one who refuses to repent.”
Abbas Markos
“Brother, you said, ‘My soul and my body suffers.’ But why do not you admit that you are well when you are determined?”
St. Barsanuphius of Palestine
“Where someone is freed from carnal desires, the fear of God cannot dwell in his soul.”
Abbas Isaiah
“Lack of faith comes from pride. The proud claims to conquer everything through his mind and science, but the knowledge of God remains inaccessible to him because God is made known only by revealing through the Holy Spirit. The Lord is revealed to the humble souls. The Lord reveals His energies to theses souls, which are unthinkable to our mind.”
Saint Silouan the Athonite
“If one people or one state is suffering, then everyone must repent, and God will fix everything.”
Saint Silouan the Athonite
“Prayer will give you good conscience. And prayer, again, will give you pure conscience. Because one needs the other by nature.”
Saint Markos the Ascetic
“Peace is to get rid of your passions, something which without the Holy Spirit is not possible”
Saint Markos the Ascetic
“As it is impossible to mix fire and water, so is pretext and humiliation,
Saint Markos the Ascetic
“Envy is a lesson of the devil, a marriage to hell, an obstacle to piety, an additional sowing of an enemy, a road to hell, deprivation of the kingdom of heaven”.
Saint Basil the Great
*The article was originally published in Greek in ikivotos.gr
