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“One should preach not from one's rational mind but rather from the heart. Only that which is from the heart can touch another heart. One must never attack or oppose anyone. If he who preaches must tell people to keep away from a certain kind of evil, he must do so meekly and humbly, with fear of God.”

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Book:Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives: The Life and Teachings of Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica
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“Humility is a Divine property and the perfection of the Christian life. It is attained through obedience. He who is not obedient cannot gain humility. There are very few in the world today who have obedience. Our humility is in proportion to our obedience.”

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Book:Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives: The Life and Teachings of Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica
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“We have very little faith in the Lord, very little trust. If we trusted the Lord as much as we trust a friend when we ask him to do something for us, neither we as individuals nor our whole country would suffer so much.”

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Book:Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives: The Life and Teachings of Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica
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“All power has its derivation from God; the Russian Czar, however, was granted a special significance distinguishing him from the rest of the world's rulers…. He is a successor of the Caesars of the Eastern Empire,…the founders of the very creed of the Faith of Christ…. Herein lies the mystery of the deep distinction between Russia and all the nations of the world.”

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Book:Modern Nationalism and Religion
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“We need repentance. You see, repentance is not only going to a priest and confessing. We must free ourselves from the obsession of thoughts. We fall many times during our life, and it is absolutely necessary to reveal everything [in Confession] to a priest who is a witness to our repentance. Repentance is the renewal of life. This means we must free ourselves from all our negative traits and turn toward absolute good. No sin is unforgivable except the sin of unrepentance.”

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Book:Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives: The Life and Teachings of Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica
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“When we talk to our fellow men and they tell us about their troubles, we will listen to them carefully if we have love for them. We will have compassion for their suffering and pain, for we are God's creatures; we are a manifestation of the love of God.”

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Book:Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives: The Life and Teachings of Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica
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“To share out your soul freely, that is what metanoia (a change of mind, or repentance)really refers to: a mental product of love. A change of mind, or love for the undemonstrable. And you throw off every conceptual cloak of self-defense, you give up the fleshly resistance of your ego. Repentance has nothing to do with self-regarding sorrow for legal transgressions. It is an ecstatic erotic self-emptying. A change of mind about the mode of thinking and being.”

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Book:Variations on the Song of Songs
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“-O, lumea aceasta nefericită! - răspunse pustnicul. E cârmuită de diavol. Zilnic le-aduce oamenilor lucruri și întâmplări ca să le-alunge din minte pomenirea lui Hristos. Îi face să nu se mai uite la ei înșiși și la rănile lor lăuntrice. Îi face să fie mai interesați de alții decât de ei înșiși.”

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Book:A Night in the Desert of the Holy Mountain: Discussion with a hermit on Jesus prayer
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“Să nu urmărim, așadar, să facem noi înșine cele dumnezeiești, și să nu ne așteptăm ca Dumnezeu să le facă pe cele omenești. Trebuie să înțelegem bine acest lucru: noi săvârșim cele omenești, Rugăciunea lui Iisus, și Dumnezeu cele dumnezeiești, adică mântuirea noastră.”

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Book:A Night in the Desert of the Holy Mountain: Discussion with a hermit on Jesus prayer
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“Sometimes, late at night, the words are only whispers– Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God. The quiet is kindness and gratitude and calm–Have mercy on me, a sinner. And I fall asleep like that, the words of the Jesus Prayer melting from English to Greek– Kyrie Iesou Christe. Floating around me– Yie tou Theou. Swimming apart from me– Eleison me.”

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Book:Nearly Orthodox: On Being a Modern Woman in an Ancient Tradition
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“Our life depends on the kind of thoughts we nurture. If our thoughts are peaceful, calm, meek, and kind, then that is what our life is like. If our attention is turned to the circumstances in which we live, we are drawn into a whirlpool of thoughts and can have neither peace nor tranquility.”

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Book:Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives: The Life and Teachings of Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica
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