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.

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 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.

When you invest your time, you are pouring your life into others.

You are the light in the heart of the universe, to illuminate the world spread the light of your love.

Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other.

intelligence is always intimidating to those who aren't!

Love is born in fire, is planted like a seed. Love cannot give you everything, but it gives you what you need.

Confine yourself to the present.

I feel like the downfall of any person is the second an artist starts celebrating their work themselves, that becomes problematic.

A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere.

Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.

The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer.