“A great means to preserve continual peace and tranquillity of soul is to receive everything from the hands of God, both great and small, and in whatever way it comes.” WayMeanSoulHandsPreservesHands Of GodTranquillity Author:Dorotheus of Gaza
“A man who gives way to his passions is like a man who is shot by an enemy, catches the arrow in his hands, and then plunges it into his own heart. A man who is resisting his passions is like a man who is shot by an enemy, and although the arrow hits him, it does not seriously wound him because he is wearing a breastplate. But the man who is uprooting his passions is like a man who is shot by an enemy, but who strikes the arrow and shatters it or turns it back into his enemies heart.” MenWayGivingHeartDoeHandsTurnsPassionEnemyHe ManShotsStrikesWoundsDenialArrowsPlungeResistingSelf-denialUprooting Author:Dorotheus of Gaza
“The devil loves and always rejoices over the ungoverned; those who are not subject to one who has power, under God, to help them and to give them a hand.” GivingHelpingHandsChristianSubjectsDevilOrthodoxRejoiceOrthodox ChristianDevil Love Book:Discourses and Sayings Source: Discourses and Sayings
“Self-indulgence takes many forms. A man may be self-indulgent in speech, in touch, in sight. From self-indulgence a man comes to idle speech and worldly talk, to buffoonery and cracking indecent jokes. There is self-indulgence in touching without necessity, making mocking signs with the hands, pushing for a place, snatching up something for oneself, approaching someone else shamelessly. All these things come from not having the fear of God in the soul and from these a man comes little by little to perfect contempt.” MenMayLittlesSoulSelfHandsChristianFormPerfectSpeechJokesSightOneselfPushingOrthodoxTouchingContemptIdleWorldlyIndulgenceSelf IndulgenceSelf Indulgent Author:Dorotheus of Gaza
