Author of quotes: Anthony The Great

Do not talk about the good deed that you want to do - do it without first divulging it.

Remove hatred from yourself, protect yourself from your lusts, as well as from bad thoughts.

Just as bad water makes the best wines useless, so evil conversations corrupt people who are virtuous in life and character.

If you see that a brother has sinned, do not despise him, do not turn away from him, and do not condemn him; for otherwise you yourself shall fall into the hands of thy enemies.

Do not expose any of its shortcomings to anyone, for any reason.

Do not repay evil for evil, nor insult for insult, for by this the Lord Himself humbles you, seeing that you are not humbled by yourself.

People need either not to acquire anything superfluous at all, or, having that, to be firmly convinced that everything that is naturally perishable, can be taken away, lost and destroyed, and that therefore, when something happens, it should not be cowardly.

God is good, dispassionate and immutable. If someone, recognizing true that God does not change, is perplexed, however, as He is happy good, angry turns back, angry at sinners, and when they repent, is merciful to him; this I say then that God is not happy and is angry; for the joy and anger the essence of passion. It is absurd to think that the deity was good or evil because of human Affairs. God is good and only good is doing harm also does not harm anyone, being always the same; and we, when we are kind we enter into communion with God - the similarity with Him, and when you become angry, then separate from God's dissimilarity to Him. By living virtuously we are God's, and becoming angry, be rejected from It; and these things do not mean anything to anger had on us, but that our sins will not suffer God to Shine on us. If then prayers and blagotvoreniya snakeweed we permit sins, it cannot mean that God we have to please and It changed, but that through such actions and treatment of our God dwells in us Obrucheva evil again sodelyvaetsya we are able to taste the goodness of God; so that to say God turns away from evil, there is also something to say: the sun disappears from the deprived of sight.

The time will come and people will go crazy. The same who remained reasonable, will be called insane because he doesn't like them.

Do not speak with anger. Let them be your words and your silence, full of prudence and wisdom. The words of the wisest of our fathers were reasonable and wise, and such was their silence.

My son Do not multiply words: wordiness will remove from you the spirit of God.

My son Do not multiply words: wordiness will remove from you the spirit of God.

My son Do not multiply words: wordiness will remove from you the spirit of God.

Pride and arrogance has cast down the devil from heaven to hell - humility and meekness elevate man from earth to heaven.