Words from the Saints -- November 12, 2020
Gerald Largent
"Blessed, however, are those who’ve managed to simplify their life and become liberated from the web of this world’s development of numerous conveniences (i.e. many inconveniences), and were released from the frightening stress of our present age." --St. Paisios of Mt. Athos
"Blessed is the one whose heart has blossomed like a palm tree by rightness of faith and has not been thrust out, as by thorns, by the heresy of the faithless and impious." --St. Ephraim of Syria
"Love for that which is earthly makes the soul empty, and then there she is sad, and grows wild, and does not want to pray to God. The enemy then, seeing that the soul is not in God, shakes her and freely places in the mind whatever he wants, and he drives the soul from one thought to another, and thus the whole day the soul remains in such disorder and cannot purely gaze at the Lord." --St. Silouan of Mt. Athos
"If a man loves someone, he naturally makes every effort to be of service to that person. If, then, a man loves God, he naturally strives to conform to His will. But if he loves the flesh, he panders to the flesh." --St. Maximos the Confessor
"In all your movements, let nothing be evident that would offend the eyes of another." --St. Augustine
"The thoughts of a wise man are devoted to wisdom, and his words enlighten those who hear them." --St. Thalassios the Libyan