Author of quotes: St. Ignatius

Be careful, watch: worshipping you, to worship out of respect for the person of feelings of love and humility? Or is it bow only laughed your pride, entices you have some temporary benefit?

To kill the conscience - it is impossible. She will accompany the man to the last judgment of Christ: they shall rebuke the enemy of your.

Because the Holy fathers said that their flesh can be trusted only when it settles in the coffin.

An example of work in mind, which has made the worker to the height of Christian perfection by taking in the depth of humility, we see the heroism of blessed Isidore of Alexandria. He was one of the dignitaries in Alexandria. Designed by the mercies of God towards monastic life, Isidore entered into the monastic dormitory, the former not far from Alexandria, and gave himself in unconditional obedience to the hegumen of the monastery, the husband, full of the Holy spirit. The Abbot, seeing that the height of Sana'a was formed in Isidore temper haughty and hard, determined to act against mental illness by the laying on of obedience difficult not only for body, but for a failing heart. Isidor, entering into the dormitory, told the Abbot that he entrusts himself to him as iron is given into the hands of Kovacs. The Abbot ordered him to stand and always stand at the gate of the monastery so that he each inbound and outbound worshipped at his feet and said, "Pray for me, I'm possessed by the devil." Isidore has rendered obedience to the Abbot as if an angel of God. After spending seven years in the foreseeing his obedience, and his death from Divine revelation, Isidor died happily.

What is our life? Almost the same as the life of the leaf on the tree!

The words of the prayer, odusevljenje attention, reach deep into the soul, ubegayut, pierce, so to speak, the heart and produce in it a tenderness. The words of prayer, committed with confusion, as if only touch the surface of the soul, without making her any impression.

Angel opened some Holy monk following the order of thought in the prayer acceptable to God: "the Beginning of prayer should consist of praise of God, thanksgiving to God for His countless blessings; then we must offer to God the sincere confession of our sins, and in contrition of spirit, in conclusion can offer, however with great humility, petition the Lord about our needs, both spiritual and physical, giving reverently performance and failure of these petitions to His will."

Give respects to one's neighbor, without distinguishing age, gender, class, and gradually begin to appear in your heart, Holy love.

Who in the hope of repentance allows himself to sin arbitrarily and deliberately, he does in relation to God evil.

... Whoever confesses their sins, they depart from that, because the sins are based and fixed on the pride of fallen nature, does not endure reproof and shame.

The confession of sins is terminated the friendship with sins.

Each choose thee the reading of the fathers, corresponding to their lifestyle. The hermit let the reading of the fathers, wrote about silence; monk, living in a hostel, - the fathers who wrote instructions for monastic hostels; Christian living in the midst of the world, the Holy fathers who uttered his teachings in General for all of Christendom. Everyone, no matter what the rank was, pokerpai abundant admonition in the writings of the fathers.