“After filling those two tanks [of water] I made the sign of the cross, put one on my back and heal the other with my hands. Father Gerasimos looked at me and felt sorry for me. At the time I was just skin and bones – sick and weekend by asceticism. Those tanks must have weighed more than I… The really difficult part though was going down the mountainside because of my feet slipped I would have fallen straight down the cliff and I would have either been killed or crippled. So I was filled with fear and trembling but the prayers of Geronda never abandoned me.”
Elder Ephraim narrating
~My Edler Joseph

“So many people come and all of them are in pain. And all of them are happy and strengthened when they leave. But do they ever think about where this pain of theirs goes? All of it comes to me. They don’t realize what remains with me when they leave here happy. It’s fine for now but how far is this going to go?” He manage to take human pain and grief to himself and transfuse others with joy and solace. He would taste bitterness while the people would be filled with sweetness and joy.
Elder Paisios
~Elder Paisios of Mount Athos

“Love Christ, have humility, prayer and patience. These are the four indicators on your spiritual compass; may the magnetic needle be your youthful Christian heart. When you have this hope my children, and Christ at the helm, fear not the stormy sea however tempestuous it may be. Your ship will arrive at the harbor filled with many virtues. Angels will come to unload and bring the valuable goods to Christ the King’s heavenly storehouse.”
Elder Amphilochios Markis
~Our Geronda

“Since God already gave you a penance through your conscience, I don’t need to give you another penance. God has taught you how serious it is for a priest to break his promise and even more so a promise to his elder.” Even though Geronda forgave him, Papa Ephraim still suffered greatly from his conscience pricking him.
~Elder Joseph
~My Elder Joseph

“Christianity is true; you can point to the various comparative elements of truth in other religions and often they are very profound, but they do not open up heaven. Only when Christ came to earth and told the thief, “you will be with me in paradise,” was heaven actually opened up two men.”
Father Seraphim Rose
~God’s Revelation to the Human Heart

“I do not remember how it started off by a know very well that I had just begun and had not pronounced the Name of our Christ many times before my heart was filled with love for God. Suddenly it increased so much that I was no longer praying but wondering in amazement at this outpouring of love. I wanted to embrace and kiss all people and the whole of creation and at the same time I was so humble in my thoughts that I felt I was the lowest of all creatures.”
~Fr. Joseph of Vatopedi as a disciple
~My Elder Joseph

“Many times just one sigh is equal to prayer, too many hours of prayer, or to digital… Without righteousness prayer isn’t heard.” The elders prayer for the world sprang from and went hand in hand with his whole spiritual state and particularly his great love.
Elder Paisios
~Elder Paisios of Mount Athos

“Oh how good our kind God is! How compassionate. He does not have any self interest are any need of man as the most perfect one. But since out of his great love He wanted to impart Is most perfect gifts, He created all of creation. And having formed man, he made him king and bestowed everything upon him.”
Elder Joseph
~ Monastic Wisdom

“All of us who walked towards the kingdom of light and eternal life are obliged to keep watch daily and see what sort of garments are soul is clothed in. Let us look at those men and women who daily dress up, change clothes, decorate themselves, groom themselves and adorned themselves in order to physically look as nicely as they can. We ought to apply that much care and even more than that on the clothing of our soul. They look at themselves in the Mirror. Our Mirror is Jesus Christ. Looking at Him, the most pure, the most holy, the most beautiful Man, we find what we are really like. So as soon as we notice some dirt are some rag on our soul we should immediately take it off and dress ourselves in purity, holiness and beauty of Christ. What ever the carnal people do for the improvement and beauty of the body can serve as an image of what the spiritual people should do on the spiritual level.”
St. Nikolai Velimirovich
~Missionary Letters #2

“When Philip spoke to the Ethiopian eunuch something in the UNIX heart changed. It says in Acts that he came to believe; that is, his heart was melted by the truth he heard. The words of Scripture are very powerful and when the right interpretation is given to them something in a human being opens up if his heart is ready. Therefore, the eunuch accepted Christ with his whole soul; he was a changed man. This was not for the sake of miracles but for the sake of that which Christ came to earth to bring.”
Father Seraphim Rose
~God’s Revelation to the Human Heart