“Gladness is blinding to the heart and does not allow it to consider and ponder the things while sadness makes…
“Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one – the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without…
“A true theologian…is someone who has tasted of God directly.” – Kyriacos Markides, Inner River
“The fault this body has is that the more comfort we try to give it the more needs it discovers.…
“Every experience leaves its imprint upon the soul.” – Marc Foley, The Ascent of Mount Carmel
“To pray is to descend with the mind into the heart, and there to stand before the face of the…
“The prayer of the heart is a prayer that directs itself to God from the center of the person and…
“We become as little as the things we love.” – St. John of the Cross
“Contemplation is naught else than a secret, peaceful and loving infusion from God, which, if it be permitted, enkindles the…
“Just as strokes of soot would ruin a perfect and extraordinarily beautiful portrait, so too inordinate appetites defile and dirty…
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