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

The acme of love is to enhance your friendly attitude to those who insult and revile you.

The one who has not conquered the passions cannot enter the chaste and pure region of the heart.

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

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.

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

Do not hate a sinner, for we all are to be res­pon­sible.