St. Basil the Great

St. Ephrem the Syrian

St. Xenia of Petersburg

St. Gregory the Theologian

Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica

St. Mary of Egypt

St. John of Damascus

St. George

St. Nicholas of Myra

St. Maximus the Confessor

St. Cyril of Alexandria

St. Anthony the Great

St. Demetrius of Thessaloniki

St. Isaac the Syrian

St. John Maximovitch

St. Pantaleon

St. Barbara the Great Martyr

St. Kateri Tekakwitha

St. Elizabeth Ann Seton

St. Athanasius the Great

St. Cosmas and Damian

St. Catherine of Alexandria

St. John Chrysostom

St. Nectarios of Aegina

St. Seraphim of Sarov

St. Francis of Assisi

St. Thomas Aquinas

St. Thérèse of Lisieux

Dispassion doesn’t mean to no longer feel the passions, but to no longer accept them.

We must remove earthly plans and desires from the heart, only then together with the Lord can we sincerely love our neighbor.

Spiritual life is noetic life, which is higher than all the desires and feelings of this world.

 The main thing in spiritual life is to keep your heart at peace.

Communion with God is the normal spiritual state.

We must not mind insulting men, if by respecting them we offend God.

When you are weary of praying, and do not receive, consider how often you have heard a poor man calling, and have not listened to him.

Let no one mourn that he has fallen again and again; for forgiveness has risen from the grave.

Faithfulness in little things is a big thing.

God loves us more than a father, mother, friend, or any else could love, and even more than we are able to love ourselves.

It is impossible to be saved without the help of the Most Blessed Virgin, because those who are not saved by the justice of God are saved by the intercession of Mary.

There is nothing colder than a Christian who does not seek to save others.

Prayer is the place of refuge for every worry, a foundation for cheerfulness, a source of constant happiness, a protection against sadness.

If you cannot find Christ in the beggar at the church door, you will not find Him in the chalice.

The saints must be honored as friends of Christ and children and heirs of God. Let us carefully observe the manner of life of all the apostles, martyrs, ascetics, and just men who announced the coming of the Lord. And let us emulate their faith, charity, hope, zeal, life, patience under suffering, and perseverance unto death so that we may also share their crowns of glory.

All who ask receive, those who seek find, and to those who knock it shall be opened. Therefore, let us knock at the beautiful garden of Scripture. It is fragrant, sweet, and blooming with various sounds of spiritual and divinely inspired birds. They sing all around our ears, capture our hearts, comfort the mourners, pacify the angry, and fill us with everlasting joy.

The whole earth is a living icon of the face of God. … I do not worship matter. I worship the Creator of matter who became matter for my sake, who willed to take His abode in matter, who worked out my salvation through matter. Never will I cease honoring the matter which wrought my salvation! I honor it, but not as God. Because of this I salute all remaining matter with reverence, because God has filled it with his grace and power.

I am ready to die for the sake of the Lord, who died for us, so that by his death he might make us free from death.

A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, ‘You are mad; you are not like us’.

To say that God turns away from the sinful is like saying that the sun hides from the blind.

To harbor no envy, no anger, no resentment against an offender is still not to have charity for him. It is possible, without any charity, to avoid rendering evil for evil. But to render, spontaneously, good for evil - such belongs to a perfect spiritual love.

Theology without practice is the theology of demons

Just as the thought of fire does not warm the body, so faith without love does not actualize the light of spiritual knowledge in the soul.

Blessed the one who continually humbles himself willingly; he will be crowned by the One who willingly humbled himself for our sake.

The fear of God illumines the soul, annihilates evil, weakens the passions, drives darkness from the soul and makes it pure. The fear of God is the summit of wisdom. Where it is not you will find nothing good.

Virtues are formed by prayer. Prayer preserves temperance. Prayer suppresses anger. Prayer prevents emotions of pride and envy. Prayer draws into the soul the Holy Spirit, and raises man to Heaven.

A handful of sand, thrown into the sea, is what sinning is, when compared to God’s Providence and mercy.

Apply yourself to entering your interior chamber and you will see the celestial chamber. For it is one and the same door open on the contemplation of both. The Ladder of this kingdom is hidden inside you, in your soul. Wash yourself of your sin and you will discover the degrees by which to ascend.

Think of the Father as a spring of life begetting the Son like a river and the Holy Ghost like a sea, for the spring and the river and sea are all one nature. Think of the Father as a root, and of the Son as a branch, and the Spirit as a fruit, for the substance in these three is one. The Father is a sun with the Son as rays and the Holy Ghost as heat.

To enjoy, we must love, and to love, we must sacrifice.

Those who want the protection of Heaven are surest of obtaining it.

Who can tell me what is most pleasing to God that I may do it?

Return to Me, and I will return to you, saith the Lord Almighty

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy.

Praised be You, my Lord, with all Your creatures, especially Sir Brother Sun, Who is the day and through whom You give us light.

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

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