An uncountable amount of money has passed through my hands, but all of it has gone to where it was meant to go, to those who suffer, to the poor, to those in need. Every month I give food, money and whatever is necessary to families in need. I give one and God gives me ten.
– Elder Iakovos (Tsalikis) (1920-1991)
Holy ascesis, together with its great self-denial, which is born from great faith in a burst of love for God, brings man to true joy. He is happy to live, for his heart flutters, glorifying his God of benefactions. He is also happy to die, for he thus goes close to God again, and will…
Don’t sit, glued to the television…. Guard yourselves from the means of mass blinding. – Elder Epiphanios (Theodoropoulos) of Athens (1930-1989)
For the time being I live in a cave. I have wonderful silence. I am the luckiest of men, for I live without cares and enjoy the honey of silence unceasingly. And when grace departs for just a little, silence comes as another grace and it shelters me in its harbor. And thus, the pains…
“When we’re in the grace of the Holy Spirit our prayer becomes pure…”
The world has abandoned innocence and goodness. Every day it takes care to head toward evil. The more years pass it heads [increasingly] toward catastrophe and God doesn’t want this. – Elder George of Drama (1901-1959)
Let us not expect the spiritual spring if we don’t first pass through the spiritual winter during which the spiritual vermin die. We mustn’t expect the divine to blossom within us if the human hasn’t first died. – Elder Paisios (Eznepidis) the Athonite (1924-1994)
