SO GOOD QUOTES

Author: SO GOOD QUOTES

  • “Therefore, let us be careful of slothfulness and negligence. These are the worst demons that exist. They make you fall apart, they tear you to shreds, and you cannot even pick up a prayer rope. I am telling you this from personal experience. If one is not careful, he will reach a point where, upon seeing the prayer rope, he will wonder how he is going to take it in his hands. However, when he stands up straight and says ‘I am going to get up; I am going to stand; I will put my feet together and begin praying’. Then you will see how quickly the demons of sloth, indolence, and depression will leave”

    —Blessed Gerondissa Makrina Vassopoulou

  • A wandering mind is made stable by reading, vigil and prayer. Flaming lust is extinguished by hunger, labor, and solitude. Stirrings of anger are calmed by psalmody, magnanimity, and mercifulness. All this has its effect when used at its proper time and in due measure. Everything untimely or without proper measure is short-lived; and short-lived things are more harmful than useful.

    —Abba Evagrius the Monk

  • Preparing ourselves for our deaths is the most important task of life, at least when we believe that death is not the total dissolution of our identity but the way to its fullest revelation.

    —Henri Nouwen

  • Every time a fast comes…they [monks and saints] don’t know what it means to gratify the desires of the flesh and I don’t know what it’s like to deny the flesh. If I’m hungry, I eat. If I’m tempted, I look.

    —Fr. Paul Girguis

  • I’m so learned, but I don’t know how to live.

  • “The person that’s rejecting you is the one with the issue—the one who needs you.”

    —Edward Rizgallah

  • “Yes, I have shattered your projects, I have annihilated your pride. Nobody needs you, you live without self-contentment, you are before me like a lamp which shines for the satisfaction of nobody, – you are ‘without any purpose.’ But you are my love and my glory, I placed my delight in you, you are the portion reserved to me, so well preserved that you are wanted by nobody else, and that you do not even think of being useful, you are my purest reflection because you have become the saints you did not want to become.”

    (L. Evely)

  • Our desires are possible to gratify, but impossible to satisfy.

    —Jonathan Bailey, The Eternal Journey

  • Don’t aim to get full. Be satisfied.

    6 Steps to Stop Overeating: Mindful Eating Applied

  • “When in prayer, if we don’t feel joy and comfort, as does a little child who runs to its mother’s embrace, then we have either hurt someone through our conduct and harshness, or pride exists in us.”

    —St. Paisios the Athonite