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 anger, develop meekness and generosity.

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.

The acme of faith is... immersion of the mind in God.

From Spiritual Directions of Diadochus of Photiki

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.

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!"

The acme of love is to enhance your friendly attitude to those who insult and revile you.

And "withdrawal from the world" is nothing but the destruction of passions and manifestation of the innermost life in Christ.

It is important to give, not only to those closer to us, also to our enemies.

Like a christening, a wedding, a graduation ceremony, a holy war, a revolutioneven?a fireworksdisplay, agaudy promise of what life ought to be, not life itself.

Spirituality does not lie in meditating on the body of an ex-master. Spirituality exists in mediating on your own inner body.

Every medium - oral, written, print, and now electronic - has its own associated thought patterns and mind sets.

Trust the gifts that God has placed within you.

I should not make any promises right now, But I know if you Pray Somewhere in this world - Something good will happen.

Mostly things that have happened to me, feelings that I've had, but on a couple of occasions I've written about things that have happened to other people.

Literally, if we took away the minimum wage - if conceivably it was gone - we could potentially virtually wipe out unemployment completely because we would be able to offer jobs at whatever level.

You can't imagine how gratifying it is to have a reader come up to you and say, 'You changed my life.'

I enjoy singing; being in touch with something that is inside of me.