“Love giving hospitality, my child, for it opens the gates of Paradise. In this you also offer hospitality to Angels. “Entertain strangers so that you won’t be a stranger to God.””
“Hospitality… the greatest of virtues. It draws the Grace of the Holy Spirit towards us. In every stranger’s face, my child, I see Christ Himself.”
“We are on the high seas of life, sometimes there are storms and at other times calm. God’s grace does not leave us. Otherwise, we would have sunk, if he had not held us up.”
“The Christian is a true human being He is courteous and polite. He doesn’t want to sadden anybody.”
“The tempter uses someone else to tempt us, either in word or deed, and rather than deal with the tempter, who threw the stone, we bite the rock, our fellow man whom the hater of good used against us.”
“A person can be raised up above the earth by two wings, one is simplicity and the other is purity of heart. You must be simple in your actions and pure in your thoughts and feelings. With a pure heart you’ll seek God and with simplicity you’ll find Him and be glad.”
“Everything seems dark and difficult to a person without Christ.”
“Do not be afraid because of your Orthodoxy; because as an Orthodox Christian in the West, you will often be isolated and always in a small minority. Do not make compromises but do not attack other Christians. Be neither defensive nor aggressive; simply be yourself.”
“When our heart has no love for Christ, we are like ships that have no fuel, no gas in their engines. We must always remember Christ with love. Then our Soul will leap for joy.”
“Christ is the same, yesterday and today, but we have closed our eyes and look into the darkness.”
“Christ often comes and knocks at your door and you invite Him to sit in the living-room of your Soul. Then, absorbed in your own business you forget the Great Visitor. He waits for you to appear and when you are too long in returning, he gets up and leaves. At other times, you are so busy that you answer Him from the window. You don’t even have time to open the door.”
“God’s protection diminishes temptation.”
“Love your Bridegroom Christ with all your heart and then everyone will love you and take care of you.”
“A pure heart passes through Heavens gate with ease.”
“Fight the Hater of Good, who envies you, bravely suffer whatever befalls you with fortitude, patience and faith.”
“Trust in the Lord always and He will nourish you in time of hunger.”
“With a good word for your neighbour, supporting him, you buy Paradise.”
“The person who gets agitated doesn’t think straight, logically.”
“When I see a person who is irritated, I don’t listen to what he is saying, but pray for God to pacify him. That’s why I don’t get distressed. When they calm down, when the time is right, I talk to them because they are then in a position to comprehend their foolishness.”
“It is because we carry on like this that some fall in the mud and others are killed”
“Innocence is greater than genius.”
“The person who shouts has no strength.”
