Elder Paisios of Mount Athos famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The goal is to rise spiritually, not simply to avoid sin.
-- Elder Paisios of Mount Athos

#Goal #Sin
Thoughts are like airplanes flying in the air. If you ignore them, there is no problem. If you pay attention to them, you create an airport inside your head and permit them to land!
-- Elder Paisios of Mount Athos

#Airplane #Airports #Land
Do not believe your thoughts, neither when they tell you that you are terrible, nor when they tell you that you are a saint.
-- Elder Paisios of Mount Athos

#Believe #Saint #Terrible
Live simply and without thinking too much, like a child with his father. Faith without too much thinking works wonders. The logical mind hinders the Grace of God and miracles. Practice patience without judging with the logical mind.
-- Elder Paisios of Mount Athos

#Children #Father #Thinking
So in every test, let us say: "Thank you, my God, because this was needed for my salvation."
-- Elder Paisios of Mount Athos

#Tests #Salvation #Saying Thank You
We have the power of the Holy Cross, our holy symbol, the divine grace of Christ, only as long as we have the holy marking of the Holy Baptism, meaning we have denied the devil and sided with Christ, and received the Holy Marking, the seal of the Gift of the Holy Spirit.
-- Elder Paisios of Mount Athos

#Truth #Long #Grace
When there is a respect for small things, there will be an even greater respect towards the bigger things. When there is no respect for small things, then neither will there be for the bigger ones. This is how the Fathers maintained Tradition.
-- Elder Paisios of Mount Athos

#Respect #Father #Little Things

My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
I don't care who scores the goals, I'm going to leave my human beingness on the field!
This is my belief: that through difficulties and problems God gives us the opportunity to grow. So when your hopes and dreams and goals are dashed, search among the wreckage, you may find a golden opportunity hidden in the ruins''.
There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
The goal of a great democracy should be fulfillment, not ease. It should be adequacy, not serenity.
Sins slowly suffocate the heart, and abandoning sins brings life to the heart.
Christian liberty is freedom from sin, not freedom to sin.
No sin which we are capable of committing has ever taken God by surprise for He knew we were just like that.
He was expressing his certainty that my appeal would be granted, but I was carrying the burden of a sin from which I had to free myself. According to him, human justice was nothing and divine justice was everything. I pointed out it was the former that had condemned me.
Marble, I perceive, covers a multitude of sins.

Elder Paisios of Mount Athos famous quotes

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