In the church we are sobered from worldly charm and intoxication of passions and lusts of life, enlightened, illuminated, purified by our souls, brought closer to God, united with God. How honorable and worthy of love the temple of God should be, as the holy men of God loved it! (John of Kronstadt)

In the church we are sobered from worldly charm and intoxication of passions and lusts of life, enlightened, illuminated, purified by our souls, brought closer to God, united with God. How honorable and worthy of love the temple of God should be, as the holy men of God loved it!

John of Kronstadt

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It is incomprehensible how Jesus Christ is united with the sign of the Cross, and gives it the wonderful power of driving away passions, demons, and to calm the troubled soul. It is likewise incomprehensible how the spirit of our Lord Jesus Christ is united with the bread and wine, transforming them into His own Flesh and Blood, and manifestly cleansing our soul from sins, bringing into it heavenly peace and tranquility and making it good, gentle, humble, and full of hearty faith and hope.

John of Kronstadt

Pray for others, and all heaven will intercede for you.

John of Kronstadt

Ask the Angels and the Saints to intercede for you, just as you'd ask people who are alive. Stand face to face with them, in the belief that they're also standing face to face with you.

John of Kronstadt

How corrupt I am become through sin! Anything bad, evil, impure immediately enters into my thoughts and is felt in my heart, whilst anything good, right, pure, holy- is often only thought and spoken of, and not felt. Woe unto me! for as yet evil is nearer to my heart than good.

John of Kronstadt

Never confuse the person, formed in the image of God, with the evil that is in him: because evil is but a chance misfortune, an illness, a devilish reverie. But the very essence of the person is the image of God, and this remains in him despite every disfigurement.

John of Kronstadt