Quotes - Archangel Michael Orthodox Church

"This is the mark of Christianity--however much a man toils, and however many righteousnesses he performs, to feel that he has done nothing, and in fasting to say, 'This is not fasting,' and in praying, 'This is not prayer,' and in perseverance at prayer, 'I have shown no perseverance; I am only just beginning to practice and to take pains;' and even if he is righteous before God, he should say, 'I am not righteous, not I; I do not take pains, but only make a beginning every day.' "

- St. Macarius the Great

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Near as the body is to the soul, the Lord is nearer, to come and open the locked doors of the heart, and to bestow on us the riches of heaven.

St. Macarius the Great

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What health and sickness are to the body, virtue and wickedness are to the soul, and knowledge and ignorance to the intellect.

St. Peter of Damascus

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Nothing is nearer to us than God.

St. John of Kronstadt

"Remember that a good action is always either preceded or followed by temptations. God permits this so that the virtue, exercised in that particular action, may be confirmed, consolidated, steeled."

St. Macarius of Optina

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