Do not think about or do anything without a spiritual purpose, whereby it is done for God. For If you travel without purpose, you shall labor in vain.

Do not think about or do anything without a spiritual purpose, whereby it is done for God. For If you travel without purpose, you shall labor in vain.

Whatever we do or say without prayer always ends up either sinful or harmful and convicts us through the deeds in some mysterious way.

No one is as good and merciful as the Lord. But even He does not forgive the unrepentant.

He who seeks forgiveness of his sins loves humility, but if he condemns another he seals his own wickedness.

Guard your mind from self-praise and flee a high opinion of yourself, so that God does not allow you to fall into the opposite passion to the virtue for which you boast, for man does not accomplish virtue alone, but with the help of God who sees all.

The devil makes small sins seem smaller in our eyes, for otherwise he can't lead us to greater evil.