He who hopes for the Lord does not count on his money or his power, but remain complacent in the help that God will give him. He is full of faith and love, lives with courage in his good conscience, appears to be ready for everything like the son before his heavenly Father, and prays to Him to bring His kingdom to earth, and His will to be made on earth as in Heaven.
Saint Nectarios of Pentapolis
If we are given to the love of Jesus, then everything will change, everything will be transformed, everything will be remade, everything will be transfigured. Anger, rage, jealousy, envy, indignation, condemnation, ingratitude, melancholy, depression will all become love, joy, craving, divine love. Paradise!
Saint Porphyrios of Kavsokalyvia
When you want to counsel someone, first you must make him feel physically relaxed and then relieve his pain with a word of love!
Saint Isaac the Syrian
One does not have to be rich or a scientist to know the Lord, but one needs to be obedient, moderate, self-restrained, humble, and to love his neighbour. The Lord will love such a soul, will reveal Himself, and teach it the Divine Love and Humility. He will give to the soul anything beneficial to find resting next to God.
Saint Silouan the Athonite
All passions are the fire of the soul, a great fire raging within us. This fire must be extinguished with the water of love that is so strong that it can extinguish every inner fire of evil and other passions. But alas, alas in our self-indulgence, if we feed this fire with another fire, with our wickedness and irritation.
Saint Ioannis of Kronstadt
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 these souls, which are unthinkable to our mind.
Saint Silouan the Athonite
God chose me to serve the good, and I have a duty to take care that all people get to know His will.
Only repentance leads to salvation.
Saint Constantine the Great
You should whisper: Christ is love. This, you will love all people, sacrificing, for the sake of this Love, sacrifice what is valuable for you, even your own life.
Saint Ioannis of Kronstadt
*The article was originally published in Greek in ikivotos.gr
