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.
Saint Silouan
Many in our time chose rest, before God gives it to them.
Abba Theodore
When you have thoughts, do not try to send them away by opening a reasonable dialogue with them. Hit them on the Rock. Christ is the Rock; His name; Jesus’ prayer. It is not up to you to not accept them. Only the name of Jesus sends the thoughts away.
Varsanufie
The basis of theory is the act
St. Gregory the Theologian
To a clergyman: Avoid the outside world, as much as you can. Shut yourself in your room. Squeeze your mind to open in order to see the spiritual light. You should look forward to get to your room and shut yourself in it. Study, pray. If you are not strengthened, how will you strengthen the others? People ask the Church to satisfy the thirst of the soul, from its organs, from the habit!
Elder Ieronymos of Aegina
You should love everyone and be at a distance from everyone.
Abba Arsenios
If you do not criticize the neighbour but extinguish yourself, you give rest to your consciousness.
Abba Isaiah
Eternal life is the home of freedom.
Saint Isaac the Syrian
If man does not say in his heart that “in this world there is only me and God,” he will not find rest.
Abba Alonios
The more you cut off from the secular, the more you free and purify your mind and you pray in a better way.
Elder Ieronymos of Aegina
*The article was originally published in Greek in ikivotos.gr