Words from the Saints -- March 24, 2022

"Let not one think, my fellow Christian, that only priests and monks need to pray with out ceasing and not laymen No, no; every Christian without exception ought to dwell always in prayer." --St. Gregory Palamas

"In everything they the Apostles did, they thought of God and lived in constant devotion to Him. This spiritual state was their unceasing prayer." --St. Basil the Great

"He knows how to live rightly, who has learned how to pray properly." --St. Augustine of Hippo

"If someone shuts a snake and a scorpion up in a bottle, in time, they will be completely destroyed. So it is with evil thoughts: they are suggested by the demons; they disappear through patience." --St. Poemen

"The more numerous the gifts we have received from God, the greater the account we must render to Him." --St. Gregory the Great, Pope of Rome