Love, Love (others), Page: Quotes, Quote Topic
The Lord wants us to love one another. Here is freedom: in love for God and neighbor. In this freedom, there is equality. In earthly orders, there may not be equality, but this is not important for the soul. Not everyone can be a king, not everyone a patriarch or a boss. But in any position it is possible to love God and to please Him, and only this is important. And whoever loves God more on earth will be in greater glory in His Kingdom.
–Saint Silouan the Athonite (1866-1938)
Discipleship, Page: Quotes, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life)
To believe in a God is one thing, to know God another.
–Saint Silouan the Athonite (1866-1938)
Page: Quotes, Quote Topic, Repentance, Sainthood
The saints were people like all of us. Many of them came out of great sins, but by repentance they attained the Kingdom of Heaven. And everyone who comes there comes through repentance, which the merciful Lord has given us through His sufferings.
–Saint Silouan the Athonite (1866-1938)
Page: Quotes, Quote Topic, Sainthood, Spiritual (life)
Many think that the saints are far from us. But they are far from those who distance themselves from them, and very close to those keep the commandments of Christ and have the grace of the Holy Spirit. In the heavens, all things are moved by the Holy Spirit. But the Holy Spirit is on earth too. He lives in our Church. He lives in the Mysteries. He is in the Holy Scriptures. He is in the souls of the faithful. The Holy Spirit unites all things, and therefore the saints are close to us. And when we pray to them, then the Holy Spirit hears our prayers, and our souls feel that they are praying for us.
–Saint Silouan the Athonite (1866-1938)
Love (others), Page: Quotes, Quote Topic
Whoever will not love his enemies cannot know the Lord and the sweetness of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit teaches us to love our enemies in such way that we pity their souls as if they were our own children.
–Saint Silouan the Athonite (1866-1938)
