Do not run away from poverty or sorrows
such things lift our prayer to Heaven
Evagrios of Pontus
your sorrow will be turned into joy
John 16:20
infinite Love
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
patient acceptance
“If you accept patiently what comes, you will always pray with joy.”
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Evagrios the Solitary
on the soul
The human heart is not a splinter, and the human soul – not a cheap thing; it is more valuable than all the world. All the treasures on earth and in the universe are not worth one Christian soul.
Saint Anatoly
Living Without Hypocrisy: Spiritual Counsels of the Holy Elders of Optina
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