Author of quotes: Archpriest Andrei Tkachev. Page 1

We, simply by communicating with each other on serious topics, can put an important word in a person's heart. Therefore, you need to be attentive to the circumstances of life and love to obey those who are smarter than you.

In general, you need to listen to people. The nature of human communication is such that people sometimes sentence great things in everyday life, for simple conversations.

By and large, each of us would have to understand for himself that life will still have to live with a suffering heart, and consolation - holistic, complete, pure - awaits a person, but - in the life of the next century. We kind of understand that... and we don't understand at the same time.

Everything that is given to man is given from God, not from man. The circumstances of life are certain movements of the hands of God, which both raise barriers and remove barriers, touch a person or shake him by the shoulders.

To live with faith in conditions of constant labor is asceticism.

Essentially, all the problems that modern man solves are ascetic problems. Asceticism should not be seen only in putting on chains. If we see an accountant in chains, we must understand that this is a crazy person, especially if he goes up to the roof at lunchtime and stands there, pummeling.

Before embarking on exploits, small or large, a person must get to know himself. Each person is unique.

The Church is revealed to man as a real life. Not as an addition to ordinary life, but as real life. Simply sewing it (in the form of celebrating Easter and Christmas, for example) with thick white threads to your shameful, ugly life will not work. The church is reality.

Extreme hypocrisy often gives rise to foolishness.

On the beard you are all Abrahams, and on deeds - hams!

Often you do not need an elder at all, you just need a friend.
This total search for elders in our time is a sign of deep loneliness. People are lonely and often no one needs with their problems: "And you know, I feel bad in my soul ..." -" Yes, everyone is bad! Who feels good now?" and it would be better in another way: "Are you healthy? How are you doing? Are you doing well?" It's okay to be interested in people, to ask. In general, there is such a holy question: "How are you doing? How can I help you?"

In order for a person to understand something about himself, a spiritual leader is needed.
But spiritual guidance must be sober. There is no need to look for a miracle worker, some kind of spiritual magnitude of the first scale. You just need an experienced person from the outside, who, even without being an old man, can observe in you something that you will never notice in yourself.

You can cry without tears. A bitter sigh, a crush is also a cry.

It is often thought that repentance consists only of regretting the sins committed. But regret for sins is not repentance, it is only an integral part of it.