Ignatius Bryanchaninov Quotes

Russian Orthodox saint (1807-1867)

Saint Ignatius (Dmitry Alexandrovich Brianchaninov, Дмитрий Александрович Брянчанинов, 1807–1867) was a bishop and theologian of the Russian Orthodox Church.

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Alternative Names: Dmitry Alexandrovich Brianchaninov • Ignace Briantchaninov • Saint Ignatius • Dmitry Bryanchaninov • Dmitry Aleksandrovich Bryanchaninov

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Self-love is a twisted love for one's self. This love is insane and fallen. He who is full of self-love, passionate for fleeting pleasure, for sinful indulgence, is an enemy of himself. He is a self-murderer. Thinking to love himself and pamper himself, he ends up hating and destroying himself eternally.

The fall has become so assimilated to the essence of all mankind that rejection of the fall has become tantamount to rejection of our very life.

Conversation and acquaintance with a saint will impart sanctity.

If you think that you love God, but in your heart lives an unpleasant disposition toward even one person, you are grievously self-deluded.

Our helmsman, the mind, sometimes loses his way and takes our whole life along with him down the wrong path.

Even in Eden, the mind tried to acquire knowledge without wisdom and attentiveness, and the knowledge proved to be lethal!

It is harder to fool the conscience than the mind. The conscience is capable of fighting long and hard against the mind deluded by its love of sin.