The prince of this world tries to keep us in constant diversion, darkening us through the pleasures of the body! - Ignatius Bryanchaninov

Do not waste time trying to determine who is right and who is wrong, you or your neighbor. Instead, try to accuse yourself and preserve peace with your neighbor through your humility.

Brothers! Let us study the all-powerful and life-giving commandments of our great God, Creator, and Redeemer. Let us learn them assiduously, by word and by life. They are read in the holy Gospels, but they are known only as much as they are done in actual fact.

Despair is a mortal sin; it is the rejection of an active, living faith in Christ.