The acme of humbleness is to forget unfalteringly good deeds of oneself.

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.

Neither your position in society, nor power, nor dignity, nor selfishness, nor even personal promotion should enslave you

Loyalty was a great thing, but no lieutenants should be forced to choose between their leader and a circus with elephants.

The sun sees your body, the moon sees your soul.

As a kid, you run around the house pretending to be a superhero, and now to be doing it as a job, I feel very lucky.

Eating and sleeping are the only activities that should be allowed to interrupt a man's enjoyment of his cigar.

To walk is to lack a place.

Joy comes from seeing the complete fulfillment of the specific purpose for which I was created and born again, not from successfully doing something of my own choosing.

I wasn't the biggest, the fastest, the strongest, and then I bought into something called work ethic.

BDS represents three words that will help bring about the defeat of Zionist Israel and victory for Palestine.

An evangelical is somebody who, first of all, has a very high view of Scripture, believes it's an infallible message from God.