Sayings of The Holy Fathers:
"...the most important miracle to be sought for in prayer is the union of our whole being with God - 'that good part, which shall not be taken away' (Luke 10:42) from us by death. Our attention should be focused on our resurrection in God as the ultimate meaning of our appearance in the world. Love towards Christ, filling the whole man, works a radical change in us ... Christ united in Himself God and man, and through Him we have access to the Father."
Archimandrite Sophrony
His Life is Mine: Part 2, Chapter 1; SVS Press pg. 109
A well-reasoned moderation in food, diminishing the passionate heat of his blood, tends greatly to facilitate your being able to attend to yourself; while the impassioning of your blood, stemming, as it does, for man excessive consumption of foods, from extreme and intensified bodily movements, from the inflammation of wrath, from being heady with vanity, and by reason of other causes, gives rise to a multitude of thoughts under valued -- in other words, to distraction. The Holy Fathers, first of all, ascribe to such a one as is desirous of attending to himself a moderate, evenly-measured, constant abstention from food.
(_Dobrotoliubiye_[_Philokalia_], Pt. II, Ch. of St. Filofei [Philotheus] of the Sinai)
All men ,led by the light of fallen nature alienated from guidance of God's light ,will be enticed into submission to the seducer(antichrist).
St Ignaty Brianchaninov
Let not us who would be Christians expect anything else than to be crucified....for to be Christian is to be crucified in this time and in any time since Christ came for the first time. His life is the example and warning to us all. We must be crucified personally,mystically;for trough crucifixion is the only path to resurrection,if we would rise with Christ,we must be humbled with him even to the ultimate humiliation, being devoured and spit forth by the uncomprehending world........we must be crucified outwardly in the eyes of the world, for Christ kingdom is not of this world and the world cannot bear it, even a single representative, even for the single moment. The world can only accept antichrist now or at any time.
Fr Seraphim Rose
Archimandrite Sophrony
His Life is Mine: Part 2, Chapter 1; SVS Press pg. 109
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A well-reasoned moderation in food, diminishing the passionate heat of his blood, tends greatly to facilitate your being able to attend to yourself; while the impassioning of your blood, stemming, as it does, for man excessive consumption of foods, from extreme and intensified bodily movements, from the inflammation of wrath, from being heady with vanity, and by reason of other causes, gives rise to a multitude of thoughts under valued -- in other words, to distraction. The Holy Fathers, first of all, ascribe to such a one as is desirous of attending to himself a moderate, evenly-measured, constant abstention from food.
(_Dobrotoliubiye_[_Philokalia_], Pt. II, Ch. of St. Filofei [Philotheus] of the Sinai)
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All men ,led by the light of fallen nature alienated from guidance of God's light ,will be enticed into submission to the seducer(antichrist).
St Ignaty Brianchaninov
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Let not us who would be Christians expect anything else than to be crucified....for to be Christian is to be crucified in this time and in any time since Christ came for the first time. His life is the example and warning to us all. We must be crucified personally,mystically;for trough crucifixion is the only path to resurrection,if we would rise with Christ,we must be humbled with him even to the ultimate humiliation, being devoured and spit forth by the uncomprehending world........we must be crucified outwardly in the eyes of the world, for Christ kingdom is not of this world and the world cannot bear it, even a single representative, even for the single moment. The world can only accept antichrist now or at any time.
Fr Seraphim Rose
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