Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov Quotes
If you want to conquer pride, do not say that your deed was done by your hands and might; say that with God's help and guidance it was done, not by my power and efforts.
If you want to conquer conceit, do not desire praise, laurels, nice garments, respect, favor, but like to be blamed and slandered by people.
Listen to others' advice and deliberate yourself. Only fools acts thoughtlessly, without consideration!
The acme of freedom from wealth is to desire to be possessionless even as others desire to possess.
If you want to conquer lust for wealth, love selflessness and sparing way of life.
The acme of humbleness is to forget unfalteringly good deeds of oneself.
... Do not let the deeds and thoughts of other people confuse you; let them not prompt you to do or say anything evil!
Grieve only if you have committed a sin, but even in this case do not grieve too much, otherwise you may become desperate.
The one who wants to love God has to take care about the purity of the soul, first of all.
The one who has not conquered the passions cannot enter the chaste and pure region of the heart.
And "withdrawal from the world" is nothing but the destruction of passions and manifestation of the innermost life in Christ.
The acme of love is to enhance your friendly attitude to those who insult and revile you.
Love takes nothing: how can it take something? Everything belongs to it. It does not say, "This is mine! And this is mine!" But it says: "This is yours!"
Love enters only one gates - the spiritual heart opened towards! And then the reciprocal wave of love arises in it, streaming outside. In that way love lives and grows.
