Author of quotes: John Of Kronstadt

If we do not kindle the warmth of faith in our hearts, then faith can be completely extinguished in us due to negligence; Christianity, with all its sacraments, may, as it were, die completely for us. The enemy is only trying to extinguish faith in the heart and bring into oblivion all the truths of Christianity. That is why we see people who are Christians by name only, but by their deeds they are perfect pagans.

If we gather the will of everyone into one will, we will stand! If we gather everyone's conscience into one conscience, we will stand! If we collect everyone's love for Russia into one love, we will stand!

Where does the passion for arrogance and self-praise come from in us? From the same place where all our sins originated: from the first ancestral sin. Man was created so that he loves God as the author of his being most of all, so that he looks at His perfections and imitates them, holyly fulfilling His will. But he loved himself more than God, he wanted to appropriate His perfection for himself, he wanted to be as great as God himself, he wanted to be self-righteous, he was subjected to self-love and pride, and he fell. Thus, exaltation or pride is a soul-destroying passion of a person, which makes him hostile to God and contemptuous of his neighbors.

In the hand of Thy great mercy I betray my spirit, accept it in peace. Amen.

We will measure the measure of the dignity of our prayer by human measure, by the quality of our relations to people. What are we like with people? Sometimes we coldly, without the participation of our hearts, according to our position or out of decency, express our requests, praise, gratitude to them, or do something for them; and sometimes with warmth, with the participation of the heart, with love, or sometimes feigned, sometimes sincere. We are also not the same with God. And not so. We must always express to God from the bottom of our hearts both praise, thanksgiving, and petition; one must always do everything with the whole heart before Him; with all your heart to always love Him and trust in Him.

Human! you are not grateful and evil in relation to God; you do not know how to use the mercies of God, and you do not want to deserve them by devotion to His all-good will, you do not want to endure the slightest test from His benevolent goodness. You are all around in the mercy of God. The devil looks at you with envy and says to God: this person will only bless You in the face. But touch only his property, especially his bones, his health: and then it will be obvious that he blesses (praises, glorifies) You only for Your gifts, and in misfortune he will murmur against You, blaspheme You. And what? About misfortune! It often happens that way. How the matter touches your self-denial, how it takes a few hours or days of patience from you, how it happens to lose something: then it really turns out that you are only able to thank God in happiness, and in misfortune you grumble. Our original enemy, to our shame, remains here in fact right.

The Lord puts each of us in a place where we can, if we want, bring to God the fruits of good deeds and save ourselves and others.

Therefore, respect simple ignorance and learn from it what the imaginary is not, that is, simplicity, non-malice, patience and so on. Uneducated babies are babies about Christ, to whom the Lord sometimes reveals His secrets.

Learn to pray, force yourself to pray: at first it will be difficult, and then, the more you force yourself, the easier it will be, but first you always need to force yourself.

Do not indulge children's whims, do not go on the lead, but learn to calmly find the cause of the negative behavior of children: if in response to a remark, the child gives in for a while, then he lacks your attention. If he continues to insist on his own, "challenges", and indignation boils in you - "fights for power". Look affectionately into your eyes, do not get involved in a quarrel, stand your ground: "A meek answer averts anger, and an offensive word arouses rage" (Proverbs 15:1). If in response to the remark you see an attempt to "take revenge", do not take out your offense in response, separate the child's sin from him, remember that this sorrow was given to you for sins, start restoring the relationship first. "Beware of your children with all care from whims before you, otherwise children will soon forget the price of your love, will contagion their hearts with malice. Caprice is the germ of heart damage, the rye of the heart, the prayer of love, the seed of malice, the abomination to the Lord."

Some individuals say that if it is a sin for lay people to receive communion often that young people like you would only need to take communion once a year, but only old posts all that often communicants crazy. This is ridiculous! What blasphemy, blasphemy! What folly! And what is heard every day at the Liturgy the voice of the Savior calling to communion: “Take, eat... the poet from her, all ye... for the remission of sins...” (Matt. 26: 26-28)? ... Liturgy is a wondrous gift of Jesus Christ. The Liturgy is the bridge that leads to eternal life. Remember: this is the last will and Testament of Jesus Christ. Follow the Golden bridge, which will save you from the pit of hell. Don't listen, beloved, those people who are fleeing from the chalice of the Savior. This poor, lost, pathetic people, away from the river of Christ.

"But Jesus said to him: no one who puts his hand to the plough and looking back, is fit for the Kingdom of God."
Got down to business, so don't look back - or go astray, perhaps, of the way.

If you live in mutual love, you will bring down on himself and his seed God's grace - and God will dwell in you and crown all endeavours and your work blessed with success: for where love is, there God is and where God is, there all good. With love dwell in peace and tranquility, for love is patient and covers everything and does not allow the person to be annoyed, to get angry, to be capricious, to offend in word or deed.

Amazing the disease was now - this passion for entertainment. Never had a need to discover as now.
This is a direct indication that people have nothing to live was that they have forgotten how to live a serious life - work for the benefit of the needy and the inner spiritual life.
And started to get bored!
And change the depth and content of the spiritual life for entertainment! What madness!
Similarly, the children deprived of reason!
Meanwhile, the entertainment - it is a public crime, public passion!