Author of quotes: Paisios Of The Holy Mountain

Christ deprived the devil of the right to do evil. He can do evil only if the person himself gives him the right to do so.

When we think of the saints, the saints also think of us and help us. This is how a person makes friends with the saints, and such friendship is more reliable than any other.

The only value in life is family. As soon as the family dies, so does the world. Show your love first and foremost in your family.

- This means that she is afraid to upset him, offend, afraid to destroy his love. To love is to feel sorry for a loved one and to be afraid to misbehave towards him.

Mother's reverence is of great importance. If a mother has humility, there is a fear of God, then everything in the house is going as it should. I know young mothers whose faces shine despite the fact that these women are not getting help from anywhere. Communicating with children, I understand the state of their mothers.

Children are given by God. He alone knows whether to give, when to give, and how many children to give - and no one else.

wife? “Appreciation,” I answered him. One person loves another for what he gives him. The wife gives her husband confidence, devotion, obedience. The husband gives his wife confidence that she is under his cover, protection. The wife is the mistress of the house, but also the main servant in it. The husband is the ruler of the house, but also the bearer of its weights. "

Do not be upset if you have hereditary defects, but also do not be proud of hereditary virtues, because God will test the work that man used to correct his old man.

I see some young guys - our compatriots, not read a single line from the gospel, begin to read brahminical, Buddhist literature, the Koran and the like. They go to an Indian guru. Then there is they have not like and they return to Orthodoxy, however, contracted in these Eastern cults a whole bunch of different [spiritual] germs. People are damaged and then it is difficult to find the truth. Let people first [life experience] knows Orthodoxy, and if Orthodoxy he doesn't like out of it. He knows Christianity is right and then compare it with various religious teachings, about which he hears. After all, knowing Christianity, people will be able to distinguish a fake from gold or to understand how pure gold, how many carats is it. Such a person will not spend on chaff, it does not take all for gold that glitters.

In order to feed the children, she [the mother] remains hungry. However, the joy that she feels, the more the joy experienced by her children. The kids eat the flesh, and the mother spiritually. They experience the sensual taste of the food, while she rejoices in spiritual rejoicing.

The more one prays, the more he feels spiritual confidence. Prayer is the shield.

Willingness to drink the Cup of bitterness another is Love...

Injustice is a great sin. Extenuating circumstances all have sins, but not justice - it gathers the wrath of God.

God is waiting for us to ask for His help, and only then intervenes. The Lord respects our freedom.