“God’s love for mankind is so great that He never ceases to work for our salvation, even when we turn away from Him.”

+ St Basil the Great

Do not believe your thoughts, neither when they tell you that you are terrible, nor when they tell you that you're a saint.

☦️ Saint Paisos of Mt. Athos

“Seek God daily. He will protect you from all evil and guide your steps.”

+ St Nektarios of Aegina

☦️Abba Macarius

"Whoever wants to become a Christian must first become a poet. The soul must learn to love everything beautiful."

+ St Porphyrios of Kavsokavilia

Our pride can make us believe we are the most important and smart people who have a right to be angry. But this is a trap. “Anger enslaves the intellect, and makes you regard your brother with bestial cruelty; it fetters the conscience with uncontrolled impulses of the flesh, and surrenders you for a time to be chastised by the evil spirits to whom you have yielded.” - St Mark The Ascetic

The beauty of Orthodox Christianity ☦

God doesn’t force us to anything. His providence can help us to get saved, but our free will is needed.
“In the Mystery of Baptism and Chrismation a man “puts on Christ” and the Holy Spirit (Gal. 3:27), and it depends on his free will, through living in according to the Gospel commandments, whether he “leav ens” himself with the leaven of the Holy Spirit and firmly becomes a new man in the Image of Christ, or stifles all this by a life according to the fallen man.”
Abbot Nikon Vorobiev