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https://www.manastir-lepavina.org/vijest_en.php?id=2500
These are my favorite quotes. I bolded my favorites.
Truly, the name of the Lord’s justice is mercy
O Lord, my hope in despair.
O Lord, my strength in weakness.
O Lord, my light in darkness
You would turn your head away in boredom from yesterday’s happiness, if it were set out on today’s table.
I like Ecclesiastes 7:10 which may be compatible with this quote.
Just a little longer and my journey will end
When we perceive our suffering as almost over, it may be easier to endure.
In truth, you will never see Him. The Light that even blinds the eyes of the seraphim will bum your pupils forever.
I like this because it means with Him we can overcome anything because he's really powerful.
O Lord... help me to magnify You, so that nothing may become great in my heart except You.
If they take me out of Your embrace, I shall die in seconds—like a fish tossed onto the sand.”
Truly, You are paradise for the pure and hell for the impure
If I were a mountain stream, I would not be thinking about my uneven course, but about the lake that awaited me.
Not sure, but it makes me think that I don't care about the now, the suffering doesn't matter, I care about where I will go after I die, this is why I endure, suicide is a sin.
Repent of your yearning for this world and all that is in this world
I seek nothing except You, truly, only You.
God knows--that you need nothing except Him alone.
Think of yourself as though you were dead, I say to myself, and you will not feel the coming of death.
Arise, O paupers, and embrace Him, for He is your wealth.
[F]or You a mountain of worries is like a snowball thrown into a fiery furnace
Bring my heart to its senses, my Lord, so that it may not be captivated by mortal beauty but by You, my Immortal Beauty
Perhaps wmen should know this. They're attracted to good looking men when instead perhaps they should be captivated by Godly men.
For love one day is like a thousand years and a thousand years like one day.
While waiting for You, I wish neither to nourish myself with blood nor to take life--so that the animals may sense the joy of my expectation
But truly, abstaining from food will not save me.
Nor can the injustice of the world crush me, if injustice has been expelled from my thoughts
People cannot shove anyone into hell, unless that person shoves himself
Even before I came out of the womb of my mother, the world with its desires was dwelling within me
your heart has not grown old beneath the weight of many years but beneath the weight of many desires
Cast the world out of yourself, my heart, and then observe how feeble it is
I'm not sure if my idea even makes sense, but I like this because our suffering is due to the world. If we cast out the world out of us, perhaps we cast out our suffering.
“Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, ‘I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.’” (John 8:12)
Repent and be restored, my soul, repent while you still have time
You are infinitely compassionate and infinitely wise
“Truly I am the Truth, the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
This is from Hebrews but I like it.
[N]othing even exists except You
Whoever wishes to follow My Way, I Myself shall carry
Here is the Good Shepherd, who values the life of one sheep above all the Sabbaths of the Jews. And here is the Healer, to whom the life of a penitent sinner is more valuable than Solomon’s temple.
One of my favorite lines. This is prayer LIX.
Indeed, sinlessness means an abundance of life, but sinfulness—a dearth of life.
Possessions... are your enemies. They tie you to this world, and they close the gates of heaven to you.
Prayer LXIV 35
Blessed is the woman... who rejects desire and fills herself with compassion
Prayer LXXII. I think the problem with women is that they desire - money particularly.
The Father... sees me covered with wounds..., and says: “Do not take revenge."
On whom shall I take revenge? On simpletons, for thinking that they can do evil to someone else in the world besides themselves
Bless my enemies, O Lord. Even I bless them and do not curse them.
Prayer LXXV.
Enemies have driven me into Your embrace more than friends have
Bless them[my enemies] and multiply them... so that absolute serenity may begin to reign in my soul
I know that my hunger can only be satisfied with You.
“What does the Lord give to us?” You would not even have been able to pose this question, if the Lord had not given you the power to do so.
You have declared war not against God but against yourselves, and God watches your suicide with compassion
Weaklings persecute you, because they fear your strength
The world persecutes you, because you have peace, and it has none.
People can do no evil to one who is righteous
Whoever desires life, must nourish himself with life.
You have been entrusted with the guardianship of the most precious treasure that God has. And this is a very great honor.
This is talking about parenthood(guardianship).
Royal children have been entrusted to your guardianship. Truly, the King will give no small reward to those who guard His princely progeny, and have not erased the Father’s name from those children’s memory.
Prayer XCV.
One last tear ... rolled its way down to the bottom of my soul. And behold, some unknown door, which that final tear struck, opened, and then You appeared
We count all pains, all tears and all sufferings endured for the sake of Your name, as our gain
