SO GOOD QUOTES

  • Love is the Kingdom, whereof the Lord mystically promised His disciples to eat in His Kingdom. For when we hear Him say, ‘Ye shall eat and drink at the table of My Kingdom’ what do we suppose we shall eat, if not love? Love is sufficient to nourish a man instead of food and drink. This is the wine ‘which maketh glad the heart of man’. Blessed is he who partakes of this wine! Licentious men have drunk this wine and felt
    shame; sinners have drunk it and have forgotten the pathways of stumbling; drunkards have drunk this wine and become fasters; the rich have drunk it and desired poverty; the poor have drunk it and been enriched with hope; the sick have drunk it and become strong; the unlearned have taken it and been made wise.

    —St. Isaac the Syrian

  • When temptation overtakes the iniquitous man, he has no confidence wherewith to call upon God, nor to expect salvation from Him, since in the days of his ease he stood
    aloof from God’s will.

    —St. Isaac the Syrian

  • A man who craves esteem cannot be rid of the causes of grief.

    —St. Isaac the Syrian

  • Flee from discussions of dogma as from an unruly lion; and never embark upon them yourself, either with those raised in the Church, or with strangers.

    —St. Isaac the Syrian

  • Just as the dolphin stirs and swims about when the visible sea is still and calm, so also, when the sea of the heart is tranquil and still from wrath and anger, mysteries and divine revelations are stirred in her at all times to delight her.

    —St. Isaac the Syrian

  • Love sinners, but hate their works; and do not despise them for their faults, lest you be tempted by the same.

    —St. Isaac the Syrian

  • Do not disdain those who are deformed from birth, because all of us will go to the grave equally privileged.

    —St. Isaac the Syrian

  • When temptation overtakes the iniquitous man, he has no confidence wherewith to call upon God, nor to expect salvation from Him, since in the days of his ease he stood
    aloof from God’s will.

    —St. Isaac the Syrian

  • You can both desire something and know it’s not good for you, or mistake clarity for truth when ambiguity might be more accurate.

    The Longing for Less: Living with Minimalism
    Kyle Chayka

  • We gain nothing, therefore, by our decision to renounce earthly things if we do not abide by it, but continue to be attracted by such things and allow ourselves to keep thinking about them. By constantly looking back like Lot’s wife towards what we have renounced, we make clear our attachment, to it. For she looked back and was turned into a pillar of salt, remaining to this day an example to the disobedient (cf. Gen. 19:26). She symbolizes the force of habit, which draws us back again after we have tried to make a definitive act of renunciation.

    —St. Neilos The Ascetic
    Philokalia