Spiritual knowledge is like a house built in the midst of secular and pagan knowledge, in which there is laid up, like… — Symeon the New Theologian Copy Share Image
The Holy Spirit, out of compassion for our weakness, comes to us even when we are impure. And if He finds our… — Evagrius Ponticus Copy Share Image
... you must hasten to oppose pernicious pride of mind, before it penetrates into the marrow of your bones. Resist it, curb… — Lorenzo Scupoli Copy Share Image
Watch yourself with all diligence, lest the enemy steals near and robs you, depriving you of this great treasure, which is inner… — Lorenzo Scupoli Copy Share Image
... you... are stones of the temple of the Father, prepared for the Father's building, and drawn up on high by the… — Ignatius of Antioch Copy Share Image
...angels... are always being filled full of light, becoming ever more radiant and making blessed use of their natural ability to change.… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
Our Lord Jesus Christ made the merciful shepherding of His sheep the proof of love for Himself (cf. Jn. 21:15-17). He denounces… — Pope Dionysius Copy Share Image
True spiritual knowledge has sometimes flourished most grandly in some who were without eloquence and almost illiterate. And this is very clearly… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
We must by every means humble our hearts and subdue our proud intellect, lest we should be like the contemporaries of the… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
He who asks to receive his daily bread does not automatically receive it in its fullness as it is in itself: he… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
When you pray either aloud or to yourself for others ? for instance, for the members of your household or for strangers,… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
Human life is but of brief duration. 'All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
Only the Holy Spirit can purify the intellect, for unless a greater power comes and overthrows the despoiler, what he has taken… — Diadochos of Photiki Copy Share Image
If time came before me, time is not before the Word, whose Begetter is atemporal. When the beginningless Father was there, leaving… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
'Hail, you who are highly favored, the Lord is with you' (Lk. 1:28)! Thus does the holy Church invoke the most holy… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
How do we receive the highest mystery of Divine love to us ? the mystery of the Christian faith? With our mind,… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
The heart is refined, spiritual, and heavenly by nature - guard it; do not overburden it, do not make it earthly, be… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
...when seeking material light, remember the spiritual light which is indispensable for the soul, and without which it remains in the darkness… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
It may well happen that what is in itself the more certain on account of the weakness of our intelligence, which is… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
One can take eternity and time to be predicates of God since, being the Ancient of Days, He is the cause of… — Pope Dionysius Copy Share Image
Holy love has a way of consuming some. This is what is meant by the one who said, 'You have ravished our… — John Climacus Copy Share Image
God is resplendently reflected in the souls of His chosen ones, and these pure souls, these images of God, like the transparent… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
...night possessed us and the shadow of death encompassed us, for we had fallen into sin and lost the power of sight… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
