“Tell everything to your spiritual father, and the Lord will have mercy on you and you will escape delusion. But if you think that you know more about the spiritual life than your spiritual father, and you stop telling him everything about yourself in confession, then you will immediately be allowed to fall into some sort of delusion, in order that you may be corrected.” IfsThinkingKnowsInspirationalMayChristianSpiritualOrderFallFatherReligiousLordMercyDelusionOrthodoxAbout YourselfSpiritual LifeConfession Author:Silouan the Athonite
“When God wants to have mercy on someone, He inspires someone else to pray for him, and He helps in this prayer.” WantInspirationalHelpingChristianReligiousPrayerInspirePrayingMercyOrthodox Author:Silouan the Athonite
“Let there always be a preponderance of mercy with you, even though you don't feel such mercy in yourself, as God has for the world ... A cruel and merciless heart is never purified. A merciful man is the doctor of his own soul, because as it were a by a strong wind from is heart he drives out the darkness of the passions.” MenWorldInspirationalFeelsHeartSoulChristianPassionStrongReligiousDarknessWindDoctorsMercyOrthodoxMercifulStrong Winds Author:Isaac of Nineveh
“If you are truly merciful, then when what is yours is unjustly taken, don't be sad inside, and do not tell of our loss to your neighbor. Let a better loss, inflicted by those who insult you, be absorbed by your mercy.” IfsInspirationalChristianReligiousLossTakenMercyNeighborInsultOrthodoxMercifulInsults YouDon't Be Sad Author:Isaac of Nineveh