You should love silence more than words. Because silence will give you a treasure while the words throw it away!
Abba Isaiah
Beware of your consciousness, which is the voice of God and the voice of your Guardian Angel. Do not neglect to take care of your conscience, because you can lose it, it can be despised and become useless and then it will no longer be the voice of God
Starec Zacharias
Nothing is greater than the pure heart, for such a heart becomes the throne of God. And what is most glorious than the throne of God? Of course nothing. God says to those who have a pure heart.
Saint Nektarios
When the Lord visits the soul, then the Cross becomes light, and sometimes even implacably sweet. But when he is willing to give it up in every trouble and illness, then we have to rejoice in the hope that he will receive even greater glory.
Elder Sophrony of Essex
Whoever has overcome temptation, will also be able to help the tempted.
Elder Sophrony of Essex
Each test is divine teaching and is a form of exercise that we have voluntarily disposed of from our lives. Merciful God tries in various ways to bring us closer to him. Before God we are all fighters.
Monk Moses of Mount Athos
Some mistakenly think that the reflection on our mortality poisons life. No, it does not. On the contrary, it teaches us to be careful and to stay away from everything that poisons life, the true life!
Saint Theophanes the Confessor
Often we pray to God without paying attention, mechanically, and we consider that a prayer, while our mind and heart are not involved. Our mind lies elsewhere, either in something we are planning to do, or in something that has insulted us. Our mind focuses on many things other than prayer.
Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnitsa
*The article was originally published in Greek in ikivotos.gr
