Who can do good if he does not know that the cause of all good is God? The Lord spread the light for us all. We are Christians, and yet we let heavy discord to intrude between us. Is that really what our faith imposes to us? Is that what God’s word teaches us?
Constantine the Great, Emperor of Constantinople and equal-to-the-apostles (272 – 337)
You should never forget that every moment you live and everything you have you owe God: for every breath, for every sun ray that warms your soul, for every bite of bread, for every good thought, for every sacred feeling, for every good deed, and for every a gift of grace that calms and delights your heart. He is the One who reinforces your struggle, assuages your passions, is the bridge for you to reach the Heaven.
However, you should be grateful to the Lord because He gave you life and then He gave you a new life through the baptism, you joined with the body of the Church and made you a child to Him, “So you are no longer a slave, but God’s child; and since you are his child, God has made you also an heir.”(Galatians 4:7)
Saint Ioannis of Kronstadt
Breaking communion from our brothers is not a trait of a person who lives according to the command of love.
Saint Basil the Great
Whoever suffers joyfully in injustice, he has consolation from God.
Isaac the Syrian
Whatever man sows in this life, he will reap in return on the Last Judgment.
Saint Basil the Great
The wise man seeks tranquility and inactivity, so that he can quietly immerse himself into the thought of God.
Saint Ioannis Damaskinos
The bigger the obstacle the bigger the reward.
Saint Ioannis Chrysostomos
You should take care of yourself in order to know the health and illness of your soul.
Saint Basil the Great
*The article was originally published in Greek in ikivotos.gr
