The path leading to perfection is long. Pray to God so that he will strengthen you. Patiently accept your falls and, having stood up, immediately run to God, not remaining in that place where you have fallen. Do not despair if you keep falling into your old sins. Only with the passage of time and with fervor will they be conquered. Don’t let anything deprive you of hope.
–Saint Nektarios of Aegina (1846-1920)
God fulfills your desires in a manner that you do not know.
–Saint Nektarios of Aegina (1846-1920)
One doesn’t need muscles in the spiritual life. We must struggle humbly, we must ask for God’s mercy and we must be grateful to Him for everything. He who abandons himself into the hands of God, without any plan of his own, will pass into God’s plan.
–Saint Paisos the Athonite (1924-1994)
At all times God caresses the hearts of all the people with His love, but we are not aware of it because our hearts have gathered a crust.
–Saint Paisos the Athonite (1924-1994)
Jesus Christ has won heaven for us, and has promised it to us if we live to the end with a living faith, a strong hope, and a burning love for God and our neighbor.
–Saint Joan Antide-Thouret (1765-1826)
What is prayer if not a long love dialogue in which the soul lays bare to God all its needs, its delights, its love, and its gratitude.
–Ronda Chervin (1937-
