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

Elder Paisios Of Mount Athos

#3. Black Poets should live
not leap
From steel bridges, like the white boys do.

Etheridge Knight

#4. We are always living in the final days. What have you got? A hundred years or much, much less until the end of your world.

Neil Gaiman

#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. Don't be a novelist
be a statistician. Much more scope for the imagination.

Darrell Huff

#8. Fighting isn't a good sign, Lara Jean. It means you still care.

Jenny Han

#9. Instantly, Harry felt a jerk somewhere behind his navel. His feet had left the ground. He could not unclench the hand holding the Triwizard Cup; it was pulling him onward in a howl of wind and swirling color, Cedric at his side.

J.K. Rowling

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

Elder Paisios Of Mount Athos

#11. God created the family to provide the maximum love and support and morality and example that one can imagine.

Jerry Falwell

#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

#14. Art must be in touch with nature - and wherever that touch is gone, Art degenerates - yet it must be above nature.

Swami Vivekananda