The humble person takes all the faults upon himself.

 The humble person takes all the faults upon himself.

The proud person passes them on to others.

The humble person glorifies and thanks God for everything!

The proud person is never happy and everything bothers him...

Saint Evmenios of Saridakis

How will we know that the Holy Spirit has come and dwelt in our hearts?

 

How will we know that the Holy Spirit has come and dwelt in our hearts?

When you see in your heart love, joy, peace, gentleness, goodness, and faithfulness, these are the Holy Spirit.

You cannot see the Holy Spirit, but you will feel his actions.

When you see someone angry, spiteful, or wicked, does this person have the Holy Spirit?

Saint Anthimos of Chios

"Look at yourself, which friends will you choose ...

 "Look at yourself,

which friends will you choose ...

because when you find yourself in difficulties,

you will run to them!!!”

 

When you choose a friend..

let him be in your life as a "brother",

because you will run to him!!!"

Friendship as the result of a healthy soul is sacred, pure, whole, faithful, stable, honest, courageous, true, eternal. Friendship is a virtue, because it is founded on ethics and good conduct.

Friendship as a virtue, is attracted by the similar, and rests on related virtues. It is a bond of two similar souls.

It is the result of a prudent soul and connects friends with deep love.

 

Friendship has a stable and uncompromising ethic. Friendship is a kind of moral pleasure that pleases the soul. Friendship always endures, sympathizing and supporting. Aristotle has said: “Friendship is a soul that dwells in two bodies.”

 

Friendship is stronger than kinship love, because kinship love is a work of necessity, but friendship is based on the will. Friendship dictates reverence for the sacred things of friends, purity in behavior, integrity in morals, faith in character, stability in decisions, sincerity in words, courage in saying what is right and beneficial and in speaking the truth.

 

Friendship is the support for the happiness of two good people, because only between good people can true friendship develop. Plato says: “Friendship is unity in favor of the good and just; the will for a common way of life, the same way of thinking and acting, a life with harmony and good mood so that there is unity, companionship in both pleasant and unpleasant things.”

 

There are three types of friendship; that which is based on virtue, that which is founded on interest, and that which exists out of habit. However, friendship for the sake of virtue is excellent, because it is strengthened by the virtue of love....

 

(Excerpt from “TO GNOTHI SAVTON. Texts of self-knowledge” by Saint Nektarios of Pentapolis, where he refers to and speaks about the importance of friendship....)

About hate

“Do good those who hate you” Matthew 5:44

”If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. ”John 15:18

“But he who hates his brother is in darkness and walks in darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.” I John 2:11

“You shall not hate your brother in your heart” Leviticus 19:17

 “Whosoever hates his brother is a murderer; 1 John 3:15” because in his heart he desires to kill him, whose blood we know that he has certainly not shed among men with his own hand or with a weapon; yet, owing to his burst of anger, he is declared to be a murderer by God.” Saint Cassian the Roman

“It is a disease to let love cool down. You should never stop saying: "No matter how much you hate me, I will never stop loving you". Thus you banish the cooling of love.” Saint Chrysostom

“As we benefit ourselves when we love our fellow men, so we punish ourselves when we hate others.” Saint Chrysostom

“Do not hate, but love; nor did He merely command to love, but also to do good, as it follows, Do good to them which hate you. For they who pierce their own souls deserve tears and weeping, not curses. For nothing is more hateful than a cursing heart” Saint Chrysostom

Entrust your future to God’s providence.

 

“Be careful how each day passes.

Entrust your future to God’s providence.

God will help.

Whatever God’s will is, it will be done.

Do not think or burden your mind about the future.”

 

Saint Jerome of Aegina