“If you find that you have no love but desire to have it, do the works of love and the Lord will see your desire and effort and put love in your heart.”

“If someone offends you, don’t tell anyone about it except your elder, and you will be peaceful. Bow to everyone, paying no attention whether they respond to your bow or not. You must humble yourself before everyone and consider yourself the worst of all. If we have not committed the sins that others have, perhaps this is because we did not have the opportunity – the situation and circumstances were different. In each person there is something good and something bad; we usually see only the vices in people and we see nothing that is good.”

“In our Spiritual life something that is very good is explained wisely at the proper time. Ask for forgiveness at the proper time in order to reconcile your own Soul and to give this opportunity to others as well. It is not in vain written in the psalms: Seek peace and pursue it (Ps. 33:15).”

“How to live?”, people would ask this important question to the Elder. And would get the witty answer, “To live – not to bother, not to condemn anyone, not to annoy anyone, and my respect to all.”