The first piece of advice I give you: do not boast.
When you feel that everyone hates you and desires your destruction, only then can you truly feel God’s love. He never abandons you.
You will not believe me, but in prison I was closest to God.
In the dungeon, in the midst of dreadful torments, I would tell myself: Endure! Do not make Christ a laughingstock!
Humility is the greatest gift from God, the source of all the others. Have humility and a spirit of self-sacrifice. And if you have upset someone, be sorry and try to reconcile with them.
If we wish to restrain our body from impurity and if we wish to pray, there is no such thing as “I cannot.”
People seek God only in trouble, hardships, and suffering, but I advise all Christians to seek Him even when things are going well.
Go to your spiritual fathers; do not let them rust!
Pride lifts you up, but if you fall from there, you fall into despair. The humble person, on the other hand, has peace and joy.
Mount Athos, Jerusalem, and Sinai are in every monastic cell and in everyone’s heart.