Quotes - Archangel Michael Orthodox Church

"Painstaking repentance, mourning cleansed of all impurity, and holy humility in beginners, are as different and distinct from each other as yeast and flour from bread. By open repentance the soul is broken and refined; it is brought to a certain unity, I will even say a commingling with God, by means of the water of genuine mourning. Then, kindled by the fire of the Lord, blessed humility becomes bread and is made firm without the leaven of pride. Therefore, when this holy three-fold cord or, rather, heavenly rainbow, unites into one power and activity, it acquires its own effects and properties. And whatever you name as an indication of one of them, is a token also of another. The first and paramount property of this excellent and admirable trinity is the acceptance of indignity with the greatest pleasure, when the soul receives it with outstretched hands and welcomes it as something that relieves and cauterizes diseases of the soul and great sins. The second property is the loss of all bad temper, and humility as its subsiding. The third and highest degree is a true distrust of one’s good qualities and a constant desire to learn."

- St. John Climacus, Ladder of Divine Ascent, Step 25

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True escape from the world is for a person to know how to control his tongue, wherever he might be.

Abba Tithoes

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Control the tongue, so that it will not utter empty words. Whoever preserves his tongue, preserves his soul from grief.

St. Paisius Velichkovsky

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Nothing causes a man to sin so often as his tongue.

St. Tikhon of Zadonsk

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It is a great good to give oneself up to the will of God. Then the Lord alone is in the soul. No other thought can enter in, and the soul feels God's love, even though the body be suffering.

St. Silouan of the Holy Mountain

St. John of Karpathos, Philokalia

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