Prayer is the guardian of sobriety, it curbs anger, suppresses pride, cleanses from resentment,

 Prayer is the guardian of sobriety; it curbs anger, suppresses pride, cleanses from resentment, drives away envy, abolishes injustice, and corrects impiety.

Prayer is the strength of bodies; it brings joy to the home, grants favor to the city, provides strength to authority, gives victory during war, ensures peace, reunites the separated, and maintains the united in place.

Prayer is the seal of virginity, the fidelity of marriage, a weapon for travelers, a guardian of those who sleep, courage for those who are awake, it brings euphoria to farmers, and it grants salvation to sailors.

Saint Gregory of Nyssa

Sunday is a holy day

The Divine Liturgy sanctifies! If a Christian does not go to church on Sunday, how will he be sanctified?

Oh, if they only knew what "rights" they give to the devil and how much more vulnerable they become to his traps, remaining naked from the "grace" of the Divine Liturgy..

Saint Paisios

Unfortunately, most "Christians", and especially "Christian women"

 Unfortunately, most "Christians", and especially "Christian women", take care mainly to beautify their perishable bodies and neglect the beautification of their eternal souls...

And in fact, most women beautify and display their bodies provocatively to the sinful scandal of men, without realizing their great sin, of which they even boast and do not accept advice...

Saint Sophia of Kleisoura

We have weaknesses and passions and defects deeply rooted within us. Many are hereditary.

  

We have weaknesses and passions and defects deeply rooted within us. Many are hereditary. All of these are not cut off with a convulsive movement or with impatience and heavy sorrow, but with patience and perseverance, with care and attention.

The road that leads to perfection is long. Pray to God to strengthen you. Face your falls with patience, and after quickly getting up, run and do not stand like children, at the place where you fell, crying and mourning inconsolably.

Watch and pray so that you do not enter into temptation. Do not despair if you constantly fall into old sins. Many of these are both strong by nature and by habit. However, with the passage of time and with diligence they are overcome. Let nothing despair you.

Saint Nektarios, the miraculous bishop of Pentapolis, Egypt

How great, saving and wonderful is the grace of the priesthood!

 How great, saving and wonderful is the grace of the priesthood! With the priesthood the Lord accomplishes great and saving works.

He cleanses and sanctifies His rational creatures, nature, animals, all the elements.

He frees people from demons, regenerates them, strengthens them. He changes the bread and wine into the Immaculate Body and Precious Blood of this very God-Man. He performs the mystery of marriage, makes it holy and the bed undefiled.

He absolves sins, heals diseases. He transforms the earth into heaven. He unites heaven with earth, man with God. He unites angels and men in one assembly.

What a lofty person the Priest is! He constantly speaks to the Lord and the Lord constantly answers his words. Every rite is a prayer-supplication to the Lord. Every rite is a prayer-answer from the Lord. The priest is an angel, not a man. He is a mediator between God and men.

He is His closest friend. He is like a god to men, with the power he has to absolve and bind sins, to perform for them the life-giving and terrible mysteries, to deify himself and deify others with these mysteries.