When we repent, that is, when we are cleansed from every sinful passion, we are slowly becoming able to enter the Divine Light.
Elder Sophrony of Essex
Do not watch how other sinners live. Their loss will not save you.
Saint Innocent of Moscow
Divine love raises the soul above the unimportant and unworthy like a light cloud, and brings it close to the inexhaustible source of love, near eternal love.
Saint Nektarios
What the caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the world calls a butterfly.
Lao Tzu
Many desires bring many disappointments
Bengali proverb
The stronger the value of outer beauty, the greater inner beauty is hidden behind it.
A. Lincoln
Be careful, because there are successes that end up in failures and failures that lead to success.
Elder Efraim Katunakiotis
With the cross in your hand, you are not going forward. You’re going up.
Father Andreas Konanos
The eyes cannot see God well except through tears
V. Hugo
When the soul is troubled, reason gets blured and does not see clearly. Only when the soul is calm, reason is illuminated, to clearly see the cause of all things.
Father Porphyrios
One can be very talented, have academic degrees and remain completely ignorant of the path of salvation.
Elder Sophronios
The poet is much more the one who inspires, than the one who is inspired.
Paul Eluard
It is impossible for the one who struggles for virtue not to have many enemies.
Saint John Chrysostom
To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.
A. de Saint Exupery
Man is driven by God, as is shark by blood.
Odysseas Elytis
*The article was originally published in Greek in ikivotos.gr
