Ορθοδοξία

All the bad sentiments, insecurity, despair, frustration that attempt to take over the soul, flee away if you’re humble. If you don’t have humility, if you’re an egotist, you don’t want your will to be thwarted, you don’t want admonition, you don’t want remonstration. You worry, get cross, rebel, react, and you’re overcome with despair.

Saint Porphyrios of Kavsokalyvia

When marriage becomes a ‘sacrament’ it removes the couple and their physical marriage away from the old world, unredeemed and without God, the world of egotism of decay and death and places them in the new, theanthropic world of the Kingdom of Heaven, of the love of the Church.

Abbot Georgios Kapsanis of Gregoriou Monastery

Do not flatter others, but treat them with simplicity, like yourself. As you behave to them externally, feel the same in your heart. Whatever your lips tell them, your heart should believe the same.

Saint Tychon, Archbishop of Voronezh and Zadonsk

We find ourselves on the sea of life – sometimes it’s a storm, other times it’s a mill-pond. God’s Grace doesn’t desert us. If things were otherwise, we’d never realize how Grace sustains us.

Elder Amphilochios Makris of Patmos

Our soul’s like a tank full of water. If you pour water from it onto flowers, that is, the virtues, the part of goodness, you’ll feel real joy, and your sins, the thorns, will atrophy. But if you pour it onto the thorns, they’ll spread and choke you and all the flowers will wither.

Saint Porphyrios of Kavsokalyvia

The passions cover Divine Grace, just as ash covers the spark. With asceticism and prayer, however, heart is cleansed of passions, the spark of divine grace is rekindled and the faithful feel Christ in their heart, which is the center of their existence.

Elder Georgios Kapsanis, Proegumen of Gregoriou Monastery +

Say the prayer, say the Jesus prayer and that’ll bring you into such a good state that however much you think about it, you can’t think about it.

Elder Ephraim of Katounakia

The rich can be justified with charity, but also the poor with patience.

Saint John the Chrysostom

Examine yourself. See who you are. Get to know your nature, that is that the body’s mortal, but your soul’s immortal. Don’t ask for superiority, but rather that you can recognize the equality of nature and can love, that you should be equal to those who seem in some way to be inferior to you.

Saint Basil the Great

The state of people’s souls is affected by their parents and this is something they carry with them throughout their lives. It leaves its traces, and a lot of the things which happen to them in life are the result of this state.

Saint Porphyrios of Kavsokalyvia