The only mind that is healthy is the one that wholly and completely follows the teaching of Christ. - Ignatius Bryanchaninov

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

Being offended at the sins of others is a serious spiritual disease.

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.