“With the Cross and ‘Lord, have mercy’, every illness is treated.
With the Cross and ‘Christ, have mercy’ the Apostles were resurecting the dead and treating all illnesses.
With the Cross and ‘Lord, have mercy’, man silences every heretic.
With the Cross and ‘Christ, have mercy’, man becomes a saint and goes to paradise, to rejoice and to be cheered like the Angels.”
Saint Cosmas of Aetolia
“Our excuse often destroys everything, and the grace of God goes away.
If the monk does not justify himself and is humiliated, the grace of God comes again.”
Saint Paisios
“The works cannot buy Grace in any way, but they attract it.”
Metropolitan Pavlos of Aleppo
“Self-reproval recapituates the relationship with the neighbour,” the Elder emphasizes, self-reproval means that someone can see his defects and not his gifts, and conversely, to see the gifts of others, not their defects.”
Metropolitan Pavlos of Aleppo
“Self-reproval is the first manifest expression of the effort to obtain humility and the basic path to this virtue.”
Metropolitan Pavlos of Aleppo
“Some people treat everyone in the same way. But we cannot put in a thimble any more as much as we put in a barrel or load a ox as much as a horse.”
Saint Paisios
“And the fruitage of the spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faith, mildness, self-control”.
Apostle Paul (Gal. 5:22-23)
“A man who praises his neighbour and criticizes himself comes to a level of holiness”.
Elder Ephraim of Katounakia
“When you close a beast in an enclosed space and you don’t feed it, you do not give it food, naturally, after a period of time it will die. The same stands with the beast of selfishness; if we do not feed it with retreats, the grace of God will slowly cease.”
Elder Ephraim of Arizona
*The article was originally published in Greek in ikivotos.gr
