Paisios of Mount Athos quotes - page 4
In the spiritual life, there is no "near” and "far”. Distance cannot separate the love of Christ, because Christ, with His love, abolishes distances. Therefore, regardless of whether one is near or far, when he is near Christ and connects with others in a brotherly way through the love of Christ, then he always feels near. I praise God that my love is of the spiritual, angelic kind that abolishes distances and enables me to have contact with you from afar – in this life, as well as in the other life which is even more faraway, because even that distance will be very short since we are united by Love, by Christ Himself.
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I remember one time our parents had gone out into the field and had left me in the house with my two younger siblings. The sky suddenly darkened and a torrential rainstorm began. "What will our parents do now?,” we said. "How will they get back home?” The two little ones began crying. "Come here,” I told them, "we will ask Christ to stop the rain.” The three of us knelt down before the family's icons and prayed. In just a few minutes the rain stopped. Miracles happen through the prayers of small children. Whatever they ask of God He gives them because they are guileless and He hears their pure prayer.
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The devil does not pursue the lost but targets the wise-those who are close to God and capable of performing miracles. He takes away their trust in God and begins to torment them with self-reliance, logic, judgment, and overthinking. That is why we must put our intellect in the "refrigerator" until God returns it to us sanctified.
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The monk renounces the world because he loves the world. He does not hate the world. He does not renounce the world because he is arrogant and wants only to save his own soul. It is because he loves the world that he stays away from the world's parasites in order to attain a better communication with the Lord.
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If you want to help the Church, it is better to try to correct yourself, rather than be looking to correct others. If you manage to correct yourself, one small part of the Church is immediately corrected. Naturally, if everyone did the same, the body of the Church would be in good health.
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