“Even though you may have spent the whole day with many occupations and worries, do not pity yourself and neglect the sacred work of prayer. Pray to God with eagerness to the end, with all your heart, for it is a duty that you owe to God. (…) For His sake, despise physical rest.”
Saint Ioannis of Kronstadt
“A sin is deadly for those who do not repent. No one is as kind and as merciful as God. Even God will not forgive the one who refuses to repent.”
Abba Markos
“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
“You should never say ‘I will do it tomorrow,’ because the second we live is ours. The next second, the next minute is not ours, because we do not know if we live them…”
Saint Dionysios of Kolitsos
Large birds migrating to the warmer regions, since they know that the trip will be long, have great love and carry on their wings small birds they encounter in their migration.
However, they are derided many times by some chickens which hardly can see due to the dust and the dirt irritating their eyes while scratching the ground.
Such people have better let the cat have their tongues since it is difficult for them zip their mouth.
St. Paisios the Athonite
Each test is divine teaching and is a form of exercise that we have voluntarily disposed of from our lives. Merciful God tries in various ways to bring us closer to him. Before God we are all fighters.
Monk Moses of Mount Athos
*The article was originally published in Greek in ikivotos.gr
