Author of quotes: Kirill (Patriarch Of Moscow)

If consciousness permeates the lie, we lose the ability to worship God.

Drunkenness is not only the beginning of atheism, but also the beginning of the death of the human.

Don't people come with their buckets to the well, where there is no water. No one would turned to the Sky, if the Sky did not answer.

The Church has always recognized that war is evil, a manifestation of nesting in human hearts fratricidal hatred. However, the Church does not prohibit her children from participating in hostilities if we are talking about the defense of the Fatherland, freedom and security of others. In such cases, the war is considered to be extremely undesirable but means. <...> We are convinced that evil will must be stopped. Sometimes this requires the use of force, and with sadness, we acknowledge this sad necessity.

We know that the story can develop in different ways. And when increases the amount of evil in human life, it begins to prevail. And like good to be in the minority. Today, Christians are in the minority. Today the values that we preach, or the move is rejected or ignored. Why? Because we offer the people to rise up, to go uphill. And all that offers popular culture today - to go downstairs. If a person lives according to the voice of instinct, if based on instinct is created a civilization that, of course, most will go this way because it is much easier and simpler, and do not, as they say Russian, to bathe, no need to create difficulties. Here's the easy life. But the same is said in the gospel: the way of salvation is a narrow path. In a sense, this path is always associated with the feat.

Multiculturalism has no future. Because it involves cultural mixing. From different cultures and religions fused cocktail, which then have to shake. He can't shake, because tradition is very strong. <...> There are also other models - we live in Russia in a multicultural society. <...> We are not talking about any confusion, we're not talking about any cocktail. We say that every man should remain himself. But we all live in the same state. We need to enforce the laws and build a friendly relationship with each other. The policy in this case should be directed not to break the boundaries between cultures and religions, and mix it all in one cocktail, and to maintain, but provide different rights and freedoms. That every man, whatever religion he may profess, felt in the country at home and didn't feel among strangers.

For Christ did not persuade everyone who heard him. Moreover, as a result of this sermon he would end his life on the cross, if not for the resurrection. That is, a narrow-minded point of view, Christ is the loser. If people do not believe in the resurrection, then what happened? He was killed, he was executed. But the Holy apostles? Every one, except John, were all executed. Look, it's a group of losers, losers. They've lost everything.

Russian world is a special civilization, to which belong the people who today call themselves different names - and Russian, Ukrainians and Belarusians. This world may belong to people who do not belong to the Slavic world, but who embraced the cultural and spiritual component of this world as their own.

If sanctions come, then I would be sure to invent them, because, unfortunately, without a shock therapy, we sometimes do not know how to work the way we need to work.

Pride, according to many of the Holy fathers, is the mother of vices. From it as from an evil root, grow various manifestations of human sinfulness.