The one who wants to love God has to take care about the purity of the soul, first of all.

And "withdrawal from the world" is nothing but the destruction of passions and manifestation of the innermost life in Christ.

If you want to conquer lust for wealth, love selflessness and sparing way of life.

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.

Love takes nothing: how can it take something? Everything belongs to it. It does not say, "This is mine! And this is mine!" But it says: "This is yours!"

The acme of humbleness is to forget unfalteringly good deeds of oneself.

Only 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.