If you go to the doctor, you will learn that cause of almost all diseases is gluttony.
Agios Ioannis Chrysostomos
We must be ready to move from evil to best and immovable from good to worse.
Saint Gregory the Theologian
Anger will never let us be well’educated and decent, two virtues that everyone praises.
Agios Ioannis Kassianos
If possible, so far as it depends on you, live in peace with all people.
Romans 12:18
Avarice is the root of all the evil: hatred, thefts, envy, divisions, rivalry, resentment, distress, murders.
Agios Ioannis Sinaitis
When God gives you something, envy has no power. When God does not give, there is no hard work.
Saint Gregory the Theologian
The youth is wild and needs many teachers, caretakers, pedagogues, childminders, nurses.
Agios Ioannis Chrysostomos
One who is disappointed and does not repent does not want to get better because one denies to use the medication procured by the repentance.
Agios Ioannis Chrysostomos
If you want to teach the love of God, you should not say anything. You should always try to be gentle and lovable.
Saint Nicholas Kabasilas
Our soul is neither good nor bad, by its very nature. However, it can become either good or bad and that will the result of a person’s own free will, choice and motivation.
Agios Ioannis Chrysostomos
Whoever does not feel love has been cut off and estranged from everything being superior and spiritual.
Saint Photios the Great
Acedia, anxiety, and constant care, many times the anger, cloud the mind and do not let logical thoughts be born of it.
Agios Ioannis Chrysostomos
Nothing is more powerful and stronger than meekness. This ensures lasting peace in our soul.
Agios Ioannis Chrysostomos
It is of great importance to be able to choose the right time to act.
Agios Ioannis Chrysostomos
*The article was originally published in Greek in ikivotos.gr