“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

Psalms 40:16 Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The Lord be magnified.

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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

Psalms 40:17
But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.

☦️Abba Macarius

Psalms 41:1-2
Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble. 2. The Lord will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies.

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

+ St Porphyrios of Kavsokavilia

Psalms 41:3-4
The Lord will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness. 4. I said, Lord, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee.

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

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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

Psalms 41:5-7
Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish? 6. And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it. 7. All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.