“We will be asked to account for not every word and act, but also for every year, even for every moment and minute of the hour”.
Saint Gregory the Theologian
“When God sees that what you do with strength you ascribe it to God, He in turn gives you His own, the spiritual, the divine.”
Saint Macarius of Egypt
“Indolence is the husband of sleep and sloth is the mother of hunger.”
Saint Gregory the Theologian
“You should know that without temptation you are far from the way of God and you do not walk in the path of the saints.”
Saint Isaac the Syrian
“The beginning of indolence is the postponement. Let us not, therefore, postpone our correction to tomorrow, because we do not know what tomorrow will bring (Proverbs. 27: 1), nor say that we will defeat the evil habit slowly, for this will never happen.”
Saint John Chrysostom
“Sin, before appearing and being performed, bothers the thoughts and deceives the mind. But when it is finished, it reveals its unworthiness, causing constant suffering to the soul and depriving the outspokenness of consciousness.”
Saint John Chrysostom
“No one can be saved if he does nothing to save his neighbour.”
Saint John Chrysostom
*The article was originally published in Greek in ikivotos.gr
