Author of quotes: Archimandrite Iliy Nozdrin

Once it was given to me to feel the stench of Gehenna. This is something so terrible... There is nothing: no shackles, no pain - and such boundless fear permeates your entire being. I only felt this unbearable smell for a moment - and you are already throwing up everything, deadening with rigor, and if you find yourself there? ... People have no idea what they are preparing for themselves, renouncing God.

Ugh. This reveals our lewdness, our unbelief, our squalor. We believe in chance, and not in the Providence of God, we believe in fate, and not in God the Almighty, in whose hand is the well-being or not the well-being of not only individual people, but also the fate of the whole world.

Prayer is the greatest power that changes the destiny of man. On this earth there are forces that affect human life more than prayer.