“Do not think only about what you eat, what to wear, how large a house you will build. Knock on the doors of the poor, the sick, orphans. Prefer more the houses of the sad rather than happy. If you do good works, you will have a large reward from God. You will be made worthy to see Miracles, and in the other life you will have endless jubilation.”
“If you Pray without giving alms, your Prayer is dead. Your hands should always be open. Give alms to orphans and widows. Alms and Prayers go together.”
The Elder said that what saves man is “the good works of God: humility, obedience, love, and mercy.”
“Your hair turned white, you’ve grown old, you will depart from this Earth – what will you find in the other world? Your plate is empty and your oil lamp is extinguished.”
The Elder said to a pilgrim of the Monastery: “To the poor man who asked you to give him bread you did not give, and now you came to do Forty Liturgies to make a display?”
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