“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
“The elder greatly valued blessed labor. No one has ever become wholly without effort and struggle. God is moved by it. “The present generation,” he concluded, “has a laziness gets brought into the monastic life, to. We want to become wholly without effort. Wouldn’t it be better,” jokes the elder, “to do vigils while lying […]
“The soul must be constantly ready and alert and always in contact with the spiritual headquarters, that is, God. Only then it will feel secure, full of hope and joy. When I was in the army, during the war, I was a radio operator. I noticed that we felt secure only when we communicated with […]
“When he reflected on his own love the Elder found himself lacking. “If I had a Catholic brother think how much I would cry. Meanwhile, how many millions of people don’t believe in Christ and how much have I cried for them?”” Elder Paisios ~Elder Paisios of Mt. Athos
“Fainthearted people who are depressed about their falls into sin concerned him too. “But there’s repentance. Are your sins greater than God’s mercy?” “I’m not interested in how sinful someone is,” he would add. “What I’m concerned about is whether he knows himself. God will judge each person according to the work they’ve done on […]
“As long as man does good he forgets about himself. He’s entirely good and he loses his selfishness. When he makes the problems of others his own, he doesn’t have his own problems.” When he prayed for the sick he would say, “My God, help the sick and take away my health,” and he would […]
“Through sin man himself turns the earthly paradise into an earthly hell. If his soul is polluted with mortal sins he lives in a demonic state: he is fiercely defensive, is tormented, finds no peace. On the contrary who ever is close to God, whoever keeps his mind on higher things, on things above and […]
“The elder’s overflowing love also embraced wildlife. The animals felt it and they would approach him and eat out of his hand. He said, “I’ll say to Christ, ‘Christ have mercy on me a brute.’ But he will ask me, ‘Did you have mercy on the brutes, the animals?’ What will I have to say?” […]
“Peace in the world,” he would tell people, “will come from inner peace. Peace movements can’t help.” Peace can be acquired through repentance and, as St. Isaac teaches, good order. “Real peace comes if your inner man is set in order and if you’re careful not to give the devil any rights to interfere in […]
“Can a sorcerer heal a sick man! He can heal someone who is shaken up by a demon is sending the demon to someone else. Remember the sorcerer and the devil are partners, so the sorcerer can say to his partner, “Leave this man and go into that one.” So the sorcerer can remove a […]