Teachings of Saints

“A few words bring prosperity.

The garden that has no fence is trampled and becomes desolate. And he who does not stop his mouth loses his spiritual fruits.”

- Saint Ephraim the Syrian

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"The greater the sorrow that befalls you, the greater will be the crown, since God is the One who determines those indescribable and ineffable rewards that surpass all reason."

- Saint John Chrysostom

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“If you want to test the faith of a Christian, talk to him about asceticism.

The believer will feel devotion, the lukewarm, that is, the false, the unbeliever, will protest.

What if Christ says:..

“The kingdom of God suffers violence and the violent seize it,” and how “you will suffer,” and how “narrow and difficult is the way that leads to life”?

We want to be Christians without Christ, that is, without spiritual suffering, without lifting the hard cross, but to walk on the broad road.”

- Fotis Kontoglou.

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“Acquire the spirit of peace and thousands around you will be saved”

- Saint Seraphim of Sarov

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“Do you have the icon of the Virgin Mary in your home? Do you have a lamp in front of Her icon? Take our Protector and Helper, our Mother, who is in heaven and on earth, and put Her in your homes! She is the Queen of Heaven and Earth! If you will take this protector into your homes and read to Her every morning, with Her lamp lit, Her Greetings and in the evening Her Intercession, you will have Her as a helper throughout your life, at the moment of your death, and on the Day of Judgment... Do you know how much our Theotokos can help before the Throne of the Holy Trinity? If She did not exist, I believe that this world would have perished long ago.”

- Elder Cleopas Ilios

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“The world talks about death. What is death? There is no death. When the soul goes to leave, at the same moment, leaving the body, it goes to God. God is here, with us! God is also within us, He is also around us. As soon as the soul goes to leave the body, before it even leaves, God grabs it. Therefore, there is no death. The soul does not die. The soul goes to Christ. Death is the transfer of man from the land of the unfortunate to the land of the Saints and Angels, in an instant. Just as you draw an arc with your hand, but you do not have time to finish it, so is death. You immediately go to Christ.”

- Archimandrite Aimilianos of Simonopetra, "Expectation of God"