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.
Vladimir Aleksandrovich AntonovThe acme of humbleness is to forget unfalteringly good deeds of oneself.
Vladimir Aleksandrovich AntonovThe one who wants to love God has to take care about the purity of the soul, first of all. This purity is attained through conquering the passions. (The one who has not conquered the passions cannot enter) the chaste and pure region of the heart. Do not hate a sinner, for we all are to be responsible.
Vladimir Aleksandrovich AntonovThe acme of freedom from wealth is to desire to be possessionless even as others desire to possess.
Vladimir Aleksandrovich AntonovOnly when we rid ourselves of passions and lust and put the desires of flesh under the control of Spirit, only then we accept the cross and follow Christ. And "withdrawal from the world" is nothing but the destruction of passions and manifestation of the innermost life in Christ.
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov