“Prayer is prosphora mixed from tears and the heart.”

“Prayer is prosphora mixed from tears and the heart.”

“Everything in the Church comes about through the Holy Spirit, from the least to the greatest. In fact, every Holy Mystery and Holy Virtue is a little Pentecost; in them, the Holy Spirit descends upon us, into us. The Lord dwells in us by the Holy Spirit, and we in Him. This is testified to us by the presence of the Holy Spirit in us. We live by the Holy Spirit in Christ, and He in us. We know this “by the Spirit which He hath given us” (I Jn. 3:24).”

“Spiritual Prayer turns into ecstasy, in which are revealed the Mysteries of the Holy Trinity, and the intellect enters that sphere of Holy unknowing that is greater than knowledge.”

“Orthodox are Orthodox because they constantly have this sense of Divine-human catholicity (truth), warming it and guarding it with Prayer and serenity. They never proclaim themselves; they never boast of man; they never remain before bare humanness; they never idolatrize humanism. The Holy Christ-bearing Apostles gave once and for all time the formula of Divine-human ecclesiology: “It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us” (Acts 15:28). First the Holy Spirit, and then us; in such a way we permit the Holy Spirit to work through us.”

“The purpose of man is to fill himself with the God-man, in His body – the Orthodox Church; to be transfigured in Him through Grace-filled struggles; to become omnipotent. Even while in the body he walks Prayerfully through the gloomy Earthly anthill; in his Soul he lives above, where Christ sits at the right hand of God, for his life is constantly stretched out between Earth and Heaven by Prayers, like a rainbow that connects the summit of Heaven with the abyss of Earth.”

“By reading the Bible you are adding yeast to the dough of your Soul and body, which gradually expands and fills the Soul until it has thoroughly permeated it and makes it rise with the truth and righteousness of the Gospel.”