Sayings of The Holy Fathers:

"But let not your fasts be with the hypocrites; for they fast on the second and fifth day of the week (meaning Monday and Thursday); but do you fast on the fourth day and the day of Preparation (meaning Wednesday and Friday). Neither pray as the hypocrites; but as the Lord commanded in His Gospel, thus pray: Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so on earth. Give us today our daily (needful) bread, and forgive us our debt as we also forgive our debtors. And bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one (or evil); for Thine is the power and the glory for ever. Thrice in the day thus pray."

The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles

Didache - The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles

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"Do we forgive our neighbors their trespasses? God also forgives us in His mercy. Do we refuse to forgive? God, too, will refuse to forgive us. As we treat our neighbors, so also does God treat us. The forgiveness, then, of your sins or unforgiveness, and hence also your salvation or destruction, depend on you yourself, man. For without forgiveness of sins there is no salvation. You can see for yourself how terrible it is."

St. Tikhon of Zadonsk.

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"Belief is a matter of dying for Christ and His commandments. It is believing that such a death is life-giving. It is to count poverty as riches, and to consider the lowest humiliation as true honor and nobility. Faith is believing that when one has nothing, one has everything. More than this, it is to possess the incomprehensible riches of the knowledge of Christ and to look upon all visible things as but clay and smoke."

St. Symeon the New Theologian

[The Practical and Theological Chapters]

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Think of your end and you will never sin...... If you want to see your fate, rise a little early in the morning and go and look at the graves of the dead. Reflect, and say to yourself:

"They, too, were human beings like myself and died. Tomorrow, I also shall die.

"Henceforth, I will not dare to perform wicked deeds, for this will lead me to perdition."

St. Cosmas Aitolos

Modern Orthodox Saints, Vol. 1