The tree of life in the heart of paradise is Christ.
All men may know and approach this tree and find nourishment and feed on the Holy Spirit.
Saint Silouan the Athonite
What air is to the body, the spirit of God is to the soul.
As you breathe from the air the elements required to nourish your body, so likewise you breathe into yourself from the Spirit of God good inclinations and thoughts…
O Holy Trinity, our Nourisher and Hope!
St John of Kronstadt
My Life in Christ
Nothing is nearer to us than God. He is the God of hearts, of the very hearts, and the heart, in its turn, is nearer than anything to us. It is the whole man, ” the hidden man of the heart,” as the Apostle says.
My Life in Christ
God hides the mysteries He offers to us, so that He might teach us to search for them in love.
love is the only thing that can bind together
God and His creation and bring about social harmony
The soul is like hardening clay
if it clings to materiality
and like soft wax when it clings to God
Therefore the Christian, who is called to a heavenly country, who is only a stranger and a sojourner upon earth, ought not attach his heart to anything earthly, but should cling to God alone, the Source of life, our resurrection, and the Life eternal.
My Life in Christ
To ask mercy from God is to ask for His Kingdom, that Kingdom Christ promised to give all who seek it, assuring them that all other things of which they have need will be added unto them.
Saint Nicholas Cabasalis
Psalm 129:7
a fount and treasury of love for mankind
“Do not think that you have a right to complain when your prayers are not answered. God fulfills your desires in a manner that you do not know.”
— St. Nektarios of Aegina
Do not run away from poverty or sorrows
such things lift our prayer to Heaven
your sorrow will be turned into joy
John 16:20
never look down on anyone, for you do not know whether the spirit of God prefers to dwell in you or them
sayings of the egyptian fathers
embrace the counter-intuitive.
judging is simply too easy, isn’t it… but judgement, anger, lack of forgiveness is nothing more than drinking a vial of bitter, malevolent poison, yourself, and then anxiously awaiting for the other person to die.
blessed are your eyes for they see, and your ears for they hear;
Matthew 13:16
Christ is Risen! Truly He is risen!
A disciple should always carry the memory of God within. For it is written: You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart. Your should not only love the Lord when entering into the place of prayer but should also remember Him with deep desire when you walk or speak to others or take your meals. For scripture says: Where your heart is, there also is your treasure; and surely, wherever a person’s heart is given, where ever their deepest desire draws them, this is indeed their god. If a disciple’s heart always longs for God, then God will surely be the Lord of the heart.
Makarios the Great
Faith is the beginning of love.
Evagrios of Pontus
All that is best, that attracts our spiritual gaze and the inclinations of our heart in man, is from God, from His Son, and from His Spirit…
God is nearer to us than any man at every time. He is nearer to me than my raiment, nearer than the air or light, nearer than my wife, father, mother, daughter, son, or friend. I live in Him, soul and body. I breathe in Him, think in Him, feel, consider, intend, speak, undertake, work in Him. “For in Him we live, and move, and have our being.”
St John of Kronstadt
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