“What I see around me would drive me insane if I did not know that no matter what happens, God will have the last word.”
Saint Paisios the Athonite
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“Believe me, if you knew Who is with you, you would not fear anything the world has to offer.”
Saint Makarios the Great of Egypt
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“Someone Else, my brother, rules everything and not the greats of this world.”
Saint Luke the Surgeon, Archbishop of Simferopel
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“There is no doubt that the Christian is called to social work. He is called to organize a better life for the workers, to provide for the old, to build hospitals, care for children, fight against exploitation, injustice, want, lawlessness.”
Saint Maria Skobtsova of Paris
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“When there is a respect for small things, there will be an even greater respect towards the bigger things. When there is no respect for small things, then neither will there be for the bigger ones. This is how the Fathers maintained Tradition.”
Saint Paisios the Athonite
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“Satan may be working but God is working too, and He will turn evil into good. Take broken tiles, God can take them and turn them into a beautiful mosaic.”
Saint Paisios the Athonite
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“Truly terrifying is the abyss of those who are in love with the events that are dragging them downward.”
Saint Nikolai Velimivoric
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“Give up everything for Christ; do not give up Christ for anything.”
Saint Justin Popovich of Serbia
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“A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, ‘you are mad; you are not like us.'”
Saint Anthony the Great
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“The human Soul without Him becomes hell; a people without Him becomes a pack of famished and ravening wolves; a school without Him becomes a poison-factory of folly; a workshop without Him becomes a place of grumbling and hatred. Hospitals and prisons without Him become dark caverns of despair!”
Saint Nikolai Velimivoric
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“The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.”
Saint Augustine of Hippo
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“The years we are living in are very difficult and very dangerous, but in the end Christ will conquer and defeat.”
Saint Paisios the Athonite
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“Since God is the Highest Good, He would not allow any evil to exist in His works unless His Omnipotence and Goodness were such as to bring good even out of evil.”
Saint Augustine of Hippo
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“Instead of arming themselves with swords, Christians extend their hands in Prayer.”
Saint Athanasius the Great, Patriarch of Alexandria
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“You don’t become holy by fighting evil. Let evil be. Look towards Christ and that will save you. What makes a person Saintly is love.”
Saint Porphyrios of Kavsokalyvia
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“Nothing is more precious than peace, by which all war, both in Heaven and Earth, is brought to an end.”
Saint Ignatius of Antioch
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“Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.”
Saint Paul the Holy Apostle
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“When we see a person who has everything be stressed, anxious, and sad, we must know that God is missing from their life.”
Saint Paisios the Athonite
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“For a long time and with great patience I sailed against the current and to you, my children, I bequeath that you too must sail against the current, no matter how difficult it is. Avert your gaze and turn your heart away from the majority of human beings who do pursue not higher goals but rather those that are easy to acquire.”
Saint Luke of Simferopel
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“Bind your Soul to the rock of faith. Never mind what waves come at you, they’ll break on the rock of faith and all obstacles will be overcome.”
Saint Iakovos Tsalikis
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“It is only through its Divine-human power that Christianity is the “salt” of the Earth, a salt which preserves humanity from decomposing into sin and evil. If, however, Christianity becomes decomposed into various humanistic elements, then it becomes lifeless, it becomes a “saltless” salt, which, according to the ever-true word of the Saviour, “is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trodden under foot by men” (Matth. 5:13).””
Saint Justin Popovich of Serbia
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“The man who cries out against evil men, but does not Pray for them will never know the Grace of God.”
Saint Silouan the Athonite
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“If you live in Divine Grace, evil won’t touch you. If you don’t experience this Grace, evil will encircle you, you’ll be overcome with lethargy and you’ll be troubled. If you see somebody who’s lethargic, that person’s not well in their Soul.”
Saint Porphyrios of Kavsokalyvia
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“Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times will be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.”
Saint Augustine of Hippo
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“Anything created that breaks off from Him [the God-man] inevitably plunges into chaos and grief. And when a people, as a group, deny the God-man, their history turns into a journey through hell and its horrors.”
Saint Justin Popovich
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“The Lord commands not to keep silent when Faith is in danger. When it comes to Faith no one can say: ‘And who am I to say?’… Alas the stones cry, and you are silent and remain careless!”
Saint Theodore the Studite
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“He, who does not choose to suffer for the sake of truth, will be chastened more painfully by the suffering he has not chosen.”
Saint Mark the Ascetic
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“No one should be afraid of wickedness which is spreading in the world, because the Lord will not leave His own children alone, even if the evil is becoming more organized. “The One who is inside us is greater than the one who is in the world””
Elder Joseph of Vatopedi
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“We are Christians, and strangers on Earth. Let none of us be frightened; our native land is not in this world.”
Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo
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“The time will come when evil will become law. But don’t be afraid. He who is with God is stronger than all armies. And if the world is collapsing – do not fall away from Faith. And in the darkness there will be light, if your heart is with Christ.”
Saint Gabriel, the New Confessor of Georgia
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“Why is there so much evil in the world today? Because people have thrown away their most reliable weapon, the all-victorious weapon with which every evil, every sin, and every demon are assuredly vanquished on all battlefields. And this weapon is Prayer and fasting.”
Saint Justin Popovich
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“Do not worry, you are not alone. The one who does not know God is alone, even if he has half the world as a friend.”
Saint Nikolai Velimivoric
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“When somebody curses your Faith in your presence and you stay silent – you are worse than the blasphemer.”
Saint Gabriel, the New Confessor of Georgia
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“Evils reinforce each other; so do virtues, thus encouraging us to still greater efforts.”
Saint Mark the Ascetic
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“Today we face so many dangers. God is watching over us like a mother watching every step of her child when it starts walking. Today more than ever before, Christ, the Panagia, and the Saints are by our side helping us. But we do not realize it.”
Saint Paisios the Athonite
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“It is not right to speak of the former years and to bless them and to curse our own age. We must know that in every age and in every place, people who actually seek their Salvation, find it.”
Saint Luke the Surgeon, Archbishop of Simferopel
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“In each and every day there are temptations, sicknesses, divorces and adventures. One hears of them and is constantly distressed! What has the world come to, by denying God! We have become a jungle, a human butchery shop. May the Lord have mercy on us.”
Elder Joseph of Vatopedi
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“I am watching how evil has assumed an immense force which consumes everything day by day. Sin is not only committed but has control over and has everything enslaved. How much care and courage we need!”
Elder Joseph of Vatopedi
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“Without Christ, man, is nothing but a walking corpse.”
Saint Justin Popovich
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“We need to have courage and turn wholeheartedly and firmly towards God because it won’t be long when even the prudent and the sensible will be deceived.”
Elder Joseph of Vatopedi