Author of quotes: St. Theophanus The Recluse

The negligence of children is the greatest of all sins, it is the extreme degree of wickedness.

Sullen, repulsive life is God's life. When the Savior said to one who is fasting, to washed, his head anointed and combed, then understand it, not to ogranichili.

Finally, going outside, should not make the COP. External let you know just external. What happens inside, it should be sacred to the whole house mystery. It is necessary in word and deed to defend the honor of his house: he did not make his business lean, don't lean, protect us when we hear that. God blessed the honour of the house is a well-behaved, clean and blagochestia the lives of all the members of his all driven and all with respect and trust pay to them.

Well you do that all at home. It's bad when someone in the family finds his own happiness. If you are, thank the Lord. But try to always been so. Art one: every day to start, as he was the first after the wedding.

Do you own, and how others look at you, not consider that important. Because the only true court of God. People and know, the more other.

Don't say "can't." This word is not a Christian. Christian word: "All can." But not by itself, but strengthen us in the Lord.

Fight, and won't fall. Falls only one who doesn't want to fight.

Tomorrow, Yes tomorrow, is the conscience ceases to interpret all the same, and finally falls silent. And then you begin to have thoughts, so you can leave. These thoughts grow stronger and then forever set.

What passion is not painful? Anger burns; envy dry; relaxes the lust; greed to eat and not sleep; the offended pride murderously eaten heart; and every other passion: hatred, jealousy, selfish ambition, chelovekov, addicted to things and people - his giving us the torment; so that to live in the same passions that go knives or wholly bare feet or be in the position of a man whose serpents suck heart. And again, who have no passions? Everyone has. As long as there is pride, all the passions have, for it is the mother of the passions and their daughters does not happen.

The hypocrisy begins with the moment when the intention is not to do good, and to just show yourself that does good.

Benefactor attractive, His will becomes law for the beneficiaries.

What more is the heart, that it flows more readily.

Each person has a spirit - the higher side of human life, the force, leading him from the visible to the invisible, from the temporal to the eternal, from the creature to the Creator, which characterizes man and distinguishes him from all other living creatures of the ground. Can this power to weaken in varying degrees, can be crooked to interpret its requirements, but just to jam or to not destroy. It is integral to our human nature.

When you see that you are black, take something like the healing dirt.