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-When it rains, waters flow into lower ground; just as God's Grace flows to rest inside the humble one.
- Do you want to become humble? First become inconspicuous.
- Infirmities of the body can heal the infirmities of the soul.
- When human consolation leaves us, divine consolation will approach.
- Quite often, from within social failures God is preparing us for heavenly successes.
- When God denies or delays fulfilling a request, He is probably trying to cure your inner passion.
- Never hesitate to tell the truth publicly, in spite of the others' stubbornness.
-When problems already exist, with patience they are gradually mended.
- Where there is patience, problems are not created.
- God doesn't want social revolutionaries and reformers; He wants us to be saints.
- Just as smoke repels bees, likewise humility repels demons.
- Don't worry, do your job properly and everything will go well.
- He who is truly good is never miserable.
- It is a mistake - always, everywhere, for everyone - to believe anything without sufficient evidence.
- The only virtue that demons can't imitate is humility.
- Doubts can make you a philosopher, but only faith can make you an apostle.
-When faith is lost and when honor dies, then man is dead.
- Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes.
- I wouldn't have seen it, if I hadn't believed it.
- The devil's biggest success is convincing most people he doesn't exist.
- Of all the savage beasts, the sycophant is the most dangerous; and of all the tame beasts, the flatterer.
- The purpose of the "Jesus Prayer" is always the remembrance of God.
- Keep your mind focused on Hades and despair not.
- If you struggle conscientiously on and off you will make no progress, for lack of humility.
- Humility is the first rung of the ladder of virtues. The topmost rung is love.
- A single sigh from within a sincere soul is equivalent to a bucketful of tears.
- Every time you judge, always add a question mark; you never know what is really going on.
- Be voluntarily blind : choose to not see others' errors.
- Faith can move mountains. Yes, the mountains of the illogical.
- Faith must be reinforced by logic; when faith is blinded, it dies.
- If you believe whatever you like of God's word, and reject whatever you don't like,
then you don't believe God's word, you believe in yourself.
- You don't choose the things you believe; they choose you.
- Whatever you sow, you shall reap.
- When our mouth is busy talking, our listening weakens.
- The wealthy can be vindicated with their almsgiving; the poor, with their patience.
- Envy blinds the eyes of the soul.
- Do not be excessively bold, nor despair too much; the former dilutes life, while the latter overthrows it.
- Awareness of our ignorance is a huge step towards knowledge.
- Despair does not allow the fallen one to get up; negligence manages to fell the one standing.
- To fall is human, to persist is demonic, to repent, divine.
- Fasting is not only about eating sparsely, but also about eating less; it is not prudent during fasting to anticipate mealtime impatiently and then pounce on the meal with body and mind.
- How to handle praises and eulogies? By examining your worthiness in depth. For example your hands may look impeccably clean to others, but: scrutinize them under a powerful microscope, and you will see the grime and germs that are actually there.
- Virginity is one thing, humility another. Many virgins can end up in "Hell" through lack of humility.
- Give bread to the needy whenever you can, or a coin, or even a glass of water. If you don't have any of these, at least console them. Your reward is dependent on your predisposition, not what you can do.
- Our visible but not actual virtues hinder us from seeing our invisible but actual sins.
- When you see a spiritually weary person, don't add to his burden; his knees can't support it.
- To observe is not a sin. Sin is to observe with envy, pride, lust and greed.
- Do you want to find the eternal life? Hold onto these 2 things: faith and humility.
- Of the travellers who stay at inns overnight, some find beds, others don't, so they sleep on the floor. When the night has passed,the next morning they abandon their beds and the inn, taking with them only their belongings. So it is for those born in this world: both the rich and the poor and the high-ranking; they too leave this life as if it was an inn, without taking any of their life's pleasures and riches along with them - just their life's works, be they good or bad.
- God responds to all prayers. Sometimes His response is "No".
- Don't strive to hold a breeze in the palm of your hand - that is, to have faith, but without works.
- The way that life is treating you is a relentless mirror of the way that you are treating life.
- A humble person never falls. Where can he fall from, if he places himself lower than others?
- Evil's greatest achievement is that it has convinced people it doesn't exist.
- To confront good with good is good. To confront bad with bad is bad.
- Man can be stronger than steel and more fragile than glass.
- Bravery is to check what is just, and not what benefits we can reap.
- Malice and virtue are not the result of nature, but of predisposition.
- The wise person heeds the advice of others.
- When socializing with friends, the excess of criticisms will lead to alienation.
- To the extent that it depends on you, be at peace with all people.
- Don't fret; do your job the way it should be done and everything will work out just fine.
- If peace and one-mindedness don't reign among people, then the mistake lies in those who govern them.
- If you can win the people, you can win the Kingdom. If you lose people, you will lose the Kingdom.
- We always love the ones who admire us, but we don't always love the ones we admire.
- He is not a believer if he doesn't live according to his beliefs.
If we judged ourselves the way we should, we would not be facing final Judgment.
- Ears believe less readily than eyes.
- Nothing is more terrible than having to confront God.
- Sin doesn't destroy as much as the despair that follows sin.
- Distrust in something usually has its roots in blind trust in something else.
- It's hard to give away kindness, because it's always given back to you.
- Give the devil an inch and he will leave...taking miles off your life with him.
- When you pray, don't tell God what to do; just tell Him you are present and ready.
- After the first and second admonition, desist, Don't persist.
- They who don't want to earn their meals shouldn't want to eat.
- Toil with faith for whatever is ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah began building the Ark.
- When you can kneel before God, you can stand up to anyone else!
- Injustice never gets blessed - by God or by people.
- Never walk with the devil - he will inevitably guide you.
- The blessings we have been given far outweigh our excuses to be miserable.
- With God on our side, we are the stronger ones.
- By bearing an injustice gladly, you will be comforted by God.
- God's divine Will never leads us to where His Grace will not protect us!
- Inevitably, whatever we sow we shall reap.
- Both the easy and the tolerable things will seem difficult to the one who is lazy and sluggish.
- Faith = to believe in that which you can't see. Reward = to see what you believed in.
- Dont try to comprehend in order to believe; believe, in order to comprehend.
- Faith is to begin by climbing the first step without seeing the entire ladder.
- I can assert that a church with a lightning rod on its roof is declaring a lack of faith.
- Doubt may not be a pleasant state to be in, but certainty is an illogical state.
- Non-violence presupposes a double faith: in God, and in people.
- The inability to believe is a form of disability.
- He who dishonours a poor person, enrages the One who created him.
- One who converses with a virtuous person will benefit greatly from his spiritual fruits.
- When going to bed, recall all your bad thoughts of the day and repent.
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