Elder Paisios Quotes

#1. Do not believe your thoughts, neither when they tell you that you are terrible, nor when they tell you that you are a saint.

Elder Paisios Of Mount Athos

#2. Our Matru Shakti is our pride. Women empowerment is very crucial to our development.

Narendra Modi

#3. So in every test, let us say: "Thank you, my God, because this was needed for my salvation."

Elder Paisios Of Mount Athos

#4. I think that people need to stand up with their backbone and not go to places where they feel like the workers aren't taken care of.

Tom Douglas

#5. When there is a respect for small things, there will be an even greater respect towards the bigger things. When there is no respect for small things, then neither will there be for the bigger ones. This is how the Fathers maintained Tradition.

Elder Paisios Of Mount Athos

#6. Live simply and without thinking too much, like a child with his father. Faith without too much thinking works wonders. The logical mind hinders the Grace of God and miracles. Practice patience without judging with the logical mind.

Elder Paisios Of Mount Athos

#7. I'm sick and tired of black and white people of good intent giving aspirin to a society that is dying of a cancerous disease.

Ralph Abernathy

#8. But only agony, and that has ending;
And the worst friend and enemy is but Death.

Rupert Brooke

#9. In a business society, the role of sex can be summed up in five pitiful little words. There is money in it.

Margaret Halsey

#10. The goal is to rise spiritually, not simply to avoid sin.

Elder Paisios Of Mount Athos

#11. Yet again, unscientific claims were being circulated broadly, but the scientists' refutation of them was published where only fellow scientists would see it.

Naomi Oreskes

#12. We have the power of the Holy Cross, our holy symbol, the divine grace of Christ, only as long as we have the holy marking of the Holy Baptism, meaning we have denied the devil and sided with Christ, and received the Holy Marking, the seal of the Gift of the Holy Spirit.

Elder Paisios Of Mount Athos

#13. Thoughts are like airplanes flying in the air. If you ignore them, there is no problem. If you pay attention to them, you create an airport inside your head and permit them to land!

Elder Paisios Of Mount Athos