'Throw the greatest weight of the match in prayer.
Prayer is our spiritual barometer.
Make your whole life a prayer to God. To learn the typical of paradise, which is the uninterrupted prayer ». (saint Paisius)
"With prayer Christ gives us the opportunity to speak with Him. Prayer is conversation with Christ. By prayer we can talk with Him then. Prayer is to put Christ in our hearts, to love Christ with all our heart. The more one prays, the more confident he feels ". (saint Paisius)
'Humiliation has great power and dissolves the devil.
Is the loudest shock for the devil. Where there is humiliation, The devil has no place. And where there is no devil, Next is to have no temptations. "Mercy Me" has humiliation and the soul accepts the Great Mercy of God who asks.
"The,and what to do, humiliation-love-arching need. Things are simple. We do it hard. As long as we can do the,What is difficult in the devil and easy to man. Love and humiliation are difficult to devil and easy in man. And a philanthropist who can't do exercise, can beat the devil with humiliation.
»In a minute inside can man become an angel or devil. How; By humiliation or pride. What, Did it take hours to make the lighthouse by an angel devil; Within seconds it was made. The easiest way to save ourselves is love and humiliation. So from love and humiliation to start and then move on to others ». (Saint Paisios the Mount Athos)
"The more you give love, the more God bless you". (Saint Paisios the Mount Athos)
"First is the faith and then the love comes. One has to believe, to love. Can't love something that doesn't believe it.
"For this, To love God, We must believe in God. Proportional to the faith one has, is both hope and love and sacrifice for God and the neighbor.
»Warm Faith in God gives birth to warm love to God and to our fellow man. We believe very much, We love very much. But if our faith is lukewarm and our love will be lukewarm » (Saint Paisios the Mount Athos).
'To feel the Divine Communion, there must be conditions. The best prerequisite is the humble attempt to cut our passions, To stay in our hearts Christ. Otherwise Christ comes with the Divine Communion within us, But he leaves immediately and we feel nothing. When Christ remains, there is a alteration to man.
»There are people who feel in them Christ from one divine community to the other without interruption. When the priest says: "After fear of God", Think of being hospitalized and come to the Divine Communion with a sense of your sinfulness, humbly asking God's mercy ». (Saint Paisios the Mount Athos)
'Be with Christ, live according to his commands and pray, To have divine powers and be able to deal with difficulties. To leave the passions, To come to the Divine Grace. What will help a lot is to get into us good concern: Where are we, What will we meet, to take our steps and get ready.
»Our lives to be more measured. To live more spiritually. To be more loved. To help the hurts, the poor with love, with pain, kindly. To pray for good people to come out ». (Saint Paisios the Mount Athos)
"Your purpose is to be purified your soul and the perfect submission of your mind, In the Divine Grace. For the sake of this purpose, to do everything, to pray, to study, to say the wish of our Christ, humbly, Feeling that you are absolutely in need of God's mercy and in a nutshell, Look at your spirituals ». (Saint Paisios the Mount Athos).
"Some men tell me: 'I don't agree with my wife we are opposite characters.
Another character, another I! How is God doing such strange things; Could not save some situations so, to match the androgynous, to be able to live spiritually;». You don't understand, I tell them, that in the difference of characters lies the harmony of God; Different characters create harmony. Alas, If you were the same characters!
»Think about what would happen, Although you were easily angry, you would crumble the house. Or, Although both of you were mild characters, you would sleep upright! If both are sensitive. If something happens at home, they both lose them, One helps the other to despair more.
»And in the treatment of children, When spouses are different characters, can more help. One holds a little brake, The other says: 'Leave the kids a little free'. If they both squeeze them, will lose their children. And if they both leave them free, again they will lose them. While this is how children find balance.
»Between them androgynous must have the purified love, to have mutual firms. If there is love, sacrifice, Always comes to each other's place, he understands him, It hurts him. And when one gets his neighbor to his painful heart, He then takes in to Christ in him, who again fills him with his inexpressible rejoicing.
»Carnal love unites externally cosmic people so only, As long as there are secular qualifications, and it separates them, when they are lost. While, When there is the spiritual, the precise love, If any of the spouses lose his cosmic qualifications, This not only does not separate them, But it unites them more. This is how God's grace comes ». (Saint Paisios the Mount Athos)
"Many times I say to some: "Arranged as God enlightens you". When I say 'as God enlightens you', I mean man to see things with divine light and not with human logic. Not to think that all,What rests on him and the enlightenment of God.
»Elder, How does uncle come about lighting;
»If we get out of the cables, The old man becomes a good conductor and then the grace of God passes and accepts his light. Otherwise they become short circuits and the grace does not act.
»The whole basis is for man to not give up the grace of God, to have divine lighting. For if there is no uncle lighting, everything is lost ». (saint Paisius)
'Tests help to meet people.
The good god saves for every man a cross commensurate with the strength of, not to torture, But to climb from the cross to heaven. Because in essence the cross is a staircase to the sky. If we understand what treasure we save from the pain of the tests, We will never grumble. But we will glorify God by lifting the cross that gave us.
»So in this life we will be happy, In the other we will have to receive a pension and a "one -off". Our God has secured estates there in the sky. But when we ask us to get rid of a test, gives these estates to others and we lose them. While, If we are patient, will give us interest.
»Is blessed the one who is tortured here, why, as much as she is trained in this life, the more it helps for the other, because of the sins of sins. Testing crosses are superior to 'talents', by the gifts, that God gives us. It is blessed one who has not a cross but five. A hassle or a martyred death is and a net salary. So in every test to say: 'Thank you, Oh my god, Because that was needed for my salvation ». (Saint Paisios the Mount Athos)
'The greatest selfish is the one who follows his calculations.
He does not ask anyone and then he is self -destructed. Can someone be smart, quadruple, But if he has will, self -confidence and philanthropy, he is constantly tortured. Tangled badly and gets problems for him. To find his way, he must open his heart to a spiritual and humbly ask for his help.
»But some instead of going to the spiritual, go to the psychiatrist. If the psychiatrist is loyal, will connect them to some spiritual. If not, will give them only pills. By themselves the pills do not solve the problem. They also need spiritual help, to be able to deal with it correctly, to improve their condition and not suffer ». (Saint Paisios the Mount Athos)
'The Holy Spirit, When he sees our heart pure, comes and dwells within us, because he loves purity. That's why it was presented as a Peristeri ». (Saint Paisios the Mount Athos
'When man works the commandments of God, does work to himself and cleaned by passions. Then the mind is illuminated, It reaches the height of theory and the soul is brightened and done as it was before the fall of the prototypes.
»In such a situation will be after the resurrection of the dead. But man can see the resurrection of his soul before the common resurrection, If completely cleaned by passions. His body then will be angelic, intangible, and will not care about material food ». (Saint Paisios the Mount Athos)
'Grumbling becomes a habit, Why the groaning and the malice brings malice.
Sowing, he crushes malice and stores anxiety. While anyone who sows doxology accepts divine joy and eternal smallpox. The grumpy, Whatever blessings God gives him, does not recognize them.
»That is why the grace of God is removed and the temptation approaches him, He is constantly chased by the temptation and brings him all setbacks, While he is grateful to him by God with his blessings. ". (Saint Paisios the Mount Athos)
"Confidence in God is a constant secret prayer that quietly brings God's powers where they need and the time they need.". (Saint Paisios the Mount Athos)
"Christ with his great love and his great rejoicing that scatters the souls of the faithful with all his holy celebrations.
»Really resurrects us after raising us up spiritually. It is enough to participate and have an appetite spiritual to celebrate them spiritually. Then we have spiritually feasting them and drunk spiritually from the paradise wine that the saints bring us and bring us to us.
»The holidays to live them, We need to keep our minds on the Holy Days and not the jobs we have to do for these holy days. To think about the events of each Holy Day and to say the wish by glorifying God. So we will celebrate with very reverence every celebration.
»To study and live the divine events continuously. When we study the events of each celebration, we move and pray with great reverence. Then in the sequences the mind is in the events we celebrate and with reverence to watch the tropics who are singing. When the mind is in the divine meanings, man lives the facts, and thus alter.
»To live these divine events, must the mind be in divine meanings. Then the man is altered. "Great and paradoxical miracle is being done today", we chant. If our mind is there, In the "paradox", Then we also live the great mystery of Christ's birth. I wish your heart becomes St. Mount and the Holy Baby of Bethlehem gives you all his blessings. ". (Saint Paisios the Mount Athos)
"In spiritual life there is no 'close' and 'away'. The love of Christ does not separate her distances, For Christ with his own love abolish distances. Therefore, either near or far one is, He always feels close, that he is close to Christ and is associated with the other brother with love of Christ.
»Do not glorify God, that my love is such, spiritual, angelic. So distances are removed. And contact will be with you in this life from afar and to the other that is even farther away. Why and that distance will be very close, After love unites us, Christ. Christ with love removes distances ». (Saint Paisios the Mount Athos)
'Nothing is done without the providence of God, and where is God's providence, definitely what is happening, as bitter as it is, will bring benefit to the soul ». (Saint Paisios the Mount Athos)
'When you see a man having great stress, distress and regret, While nothing he misses, to know that he misses God.
»Whoever has all and material goods and health and instead of grateful God, has irrational demands and grumbles, is for hell with shoes.
»The man, When he has gratitude, with everything is happy. Thinks what God gives him every day and rejoices everything. But when it is ungrateful, with nothing is happy, grumbles and tortured with everything. Grunn becomes a habit. Why the moan brings moaning and the bad guy brings malice. Sowing, he crushes malice and stores anxiety.
»While whoever sows doxology, accepts divine joy and eternal blessing. The grumpy, Whatever blessings God gives him, does not recognize them. That is why the grace of God is removed and the temptation approaches him, He is constantly chased by the temptation and brings him all setbacks. While God is grateful to him with his blessings. ". (Saint Paisios the Mount Athos)
"When man is helped he will believe in God and the future life, the eternal.
»Will capture the deepest meaning of life, will repent, will change life. Comes immediately the divine consolation with the grace of God, which alterates man, pushing out all his hereditary.
"So it was done to many people who repented, They fought with kindness humbly, were given, They also became saints. And we now worship them with reverence, We also ask for their embassies, while before they had many passions and hereditary.
»Everything is the grace of God. And the soul can only help her cute spiritual, with faith, who loves the soul and hurts her. Because she knows her great value, It helps her in repentance, she lightens her with confession. It liberates her from anxiety and leads her to paradise or throws the account with which the sensitive soul is tormented by the wickedness and heals.
»There is no greater illness in the world than accounting. When the devil persuades man with calculations, that is not well. But there is no senior doctor in these cases by the experienced spiritual. Who inspires confidence with his holiness and throws these accounts from the delicate creatures of God. Heals souls and bodies without drugs, By the grace of God, And it also secures them paradise ». (Saint Paisios the Mount Athos
'You ask for and you will receive, said Christ. If what you ask for is clean and for your interest, you will receive it. If you ask God for power, To pray to forgive your sins and help others, This is good and will give it to you ». (Saint Paisios of Agioritis)
'Be with Christ, live according to his commands and pray.
»To have divine powers and be able to deal with difficulties. To leave the passions, To come to the Divine Grace. What will help a lot is to get into us good concern: Where are we, What will we meet, to take our steps and get ready.
»Our lives to be more measured. To live more spiritually. To be more loved. To help the hurts, the poor with love, with pain, kindly. To pray for good people to come out ». (Saint Paisios the Mount Athos)
'We should not leave the wish.
»When we are given the opportunity, to tell her. Do not go around our minds in vain. With the wish the mind rests and rejoices. Man's mind must be dealing with wish and not running in vain.
»We must constantly constantly say the wish. Inside our hearts and our minds must only be left with the name of our Christ. For when we leave the prayer, our communication with God, then the devil with calculations begins and stuns us and we no longer know what we want, neither what do we say, Nor what we do ». (Saint Paisios the Mount Athos)
'The way of the church is love.
»The Church sees everything with longevity and looks to help everyone, The,What if he has done, no matter how sinful is. The temple, Church is the "home" of God. And our real home is in paradise. Here the sisters chant, there the angels, the Saints. Inside the house of God where Christ is sacrificed, We have to be very devout.
»With a drop of divine blood he acquired us from sin, He then hospitalizes us with the pounds of blood and nourishes us with his wide body. All these horrible and divine events, When we bring them to memory, They help us to move with reverence in the temple. But I see in the Divine Liturgy even when he says: 'I am in the heart of the heart' and we say: 'We have to the Lord', There are few who have their minds towards the Lord ». (Saint Paisios the Mount Athos)
'Salary cause our souls or bad people, either carelessly that unintentionally make them harmful to our lives.
»Why temptations benefit a lot. God allows temptations, not to tyrannize us the devil, But in order to give this way "exams" for the other life and not have irrational requirements in the second presence.
»We need to understand it well, that we are fighting and we have to fight, until we are in this life, with the devil himself. As long as man lives, He has a lot of work to do for the improvement of his soul and has the right to take spiritual exams. If he dies and does not pass, is cut off anymore. There is no post -transcendent. ». (Saint Paisios the Mount Athos)
'The jealousy, the condemnation, anger, resentment, everything from pride begins.
»Pride is the General Staff of All Passion. So if you hit the pride, you hit all passions and comes within you humiliation and love. That's why I think enough is, to deal with or rather to open a battle front with pride. To turn all fire towards the castle of pride, which separates us from God.
»Anyone who has more humiliation, has more spiritual content. Its pride is worthless, It's awesome thing, After their angels made demons! She brought us from Paradise to Earth and now from Earth she is trying to send us to hell.
»When man has pride then spiritual laws work. Prides them on, falls and humiliates. Again proud, again falls, again humiliated. And continues the same situation throughout his life, pride-humiliation, pride-humiliation. This humiliation is not virtue; it is the result of spiritual laws that work. That is, humiliated man, Without wanting it and without going out of anything ». (Saint Paisios the Mount Athos)
'What do you keep yourself for yourself;
"Yes, kid, Throw yourself. If you throw away yourself, then you will fly. What do you keep yourself for yourself; The part of the love you hold for yourself, you remove it from the total love you have to have for others.
»As much as you can, to take yourself out of your actions and put within you others. Try what you want for yourself to give it to others. To give, to give, Without counting yourself.
»As long as you give, so you'll get, For God will give you abundant his grace and his love. Will love you so much, As you too will love him, Why will you stop loving yourself, Whoever asks you to feed on selfishness and pride.
»And not by the grace of God, that gives all the vitamins to the soul and divine lesion to the flesh, and makes man radiate. I will wish you very quickly to feel all that, To get rid of the suffering of philanthropy ». (Saint Paisios the Mount Athos)
'Must man to know himself as he is and not as the enemy of the devil presents him, Because he is interested in our evil.
»Never despair, It is enough to repent, because his sins are less than the devil and mitigating has, Because it was built by soil and by carelessness slipped and muddy. To make a right match, We have to turn the wheel on the contrary from where the devil turns her.
»If he tells us that we are something, to cultivate self -infliction. If he tells us that we are nothing, to say: 'God will like me'. So just if man moves, With confidence and hope to God, Repentance enters his life, humility, and rises to spiritual heights ». (Saint Paisios the Mount Athos)
'The only solution to avoid temptations is to allies with the devil.
»As long as one struggles, will have temptations and difficulties. And as long as he tries to avoid temptation, so against the devil's gone. But with temptations, If we use them correctly, Given the opportunity, Because sometimes our lives are against the Gospel to be done according to it. ". (Saint Paisios the Mount Athos)
'All the wars of demons against us are due to one of the following causes: or in the friendly or in pride or in the envy of demons.
»The passers and the weak fight with their passions, the devils with the devil. Anyone who attempts to fight helpless with the wicked spirits, It will definitely be killed. Pure prayer and perseverance in prayer attract the grace of God in our heart. Humility fights passions and devils and replaces the works of the weak.
»He who prays with humiliation and fear of God, will never get bad. Because he has with him the grace of God. God's mysteries are revealed to the humble. Without humiliation, exercise, God's Word remains unmistakable. Prayer of humble bends God. Humiliation opens the gate of heaven, And the mysteries of God are revealed to the humble ». (Saint Paisios of Agioritis)
'So the power of prayer is great.
»Her grace is very great. The Primary Ophis the Satan and his organs tremble her. A little to shout at Christ, a little bit to invoke the Virgin Mary, a little to talk to the saints and gets a leg of another.
»She can't stand her grace. Not withstand their love. Not withstand their grace. Not withstand their presence. The bad of course with us many times is that we don't pray. We don't pray with warmth ». (Saint Paisios the Mount Athos)
"There are no blessed people than those who caught contact with the celestial station and are woven with devotion with God. As there are no more unhappy than those who have cut their contact with God and turn the world and the buttons of the world stunned, to forget about their very anxiety a little bit ». (Saint Paisios the Mount Athos)
'You can live by this life the paradise.
»Anyone doing the good, rejoices, because it is paid with divine consolation. Anyone who does evil suffer and makes the earthly paradise on earth hell.
»You have love, kindness; You're an angel and, where you go or stand you carry paradise. You have passions, wickedness; You have the devil inside you and, where you go or stand, you carry hell. From here we start living paradise or hell.
»God is good. He wants everyone to be saved. If it were only a few, then why was Christ crucified; The gate of paradise is not narrow. Fits all the people who bend humbly and are not inflated by pride, as long as they repent, that is, to give the burden of their sins to Christ, And then they can easily pass through the gateway ». (Saint Paisios the Mount Athos)
"Repentance, Confession cuts the right of the devil.
»When someone is loyal, is chopped, confesses, commutes, The devil has no power, no power. But one who is not loyal and gives him rights, has great power.
»Depending on the rights a soul gives, It is also his power on her. Even when one dies and is neat, While his soul ascends to heaven, It's like running a train and other dogs run from behind by barking and they can't do anything.
»When the devil has acquired great rights to man and has overwhelmed him, then the cause must be found, To cut off rights. Otherwise, As much as prayer and others do, he does not leave. Packed the man.
»Priests make exorcisms, But nothing becomes man to be tormented even more than the devil. Must repent man, confess, to cut the rights he has given, and then the devil will leave, otherwise it will be suffering. Months to read exorcisms, If the devil has rights, doesn't leave ». (Saint Paisios the Mount Athos)
Elder when the spells catch;
'To catch the spells, one has to give rights to the devil. That is, to give a serious occasion and not to be arranged with repentance and confession. To one who confesses and with the shovel throwing the spells, they do not catch. Why, When confessed and has a pure heart, Magi cannot work with the devil, to hurt him.
If they catch the spell elderly, How are they solved;
»With repentance and confession. That is why the cause must first be found, for which the spells caught, to understand man his error, to repent and confess. How many come there in the hut that is suffering, Because they have made them magic, and they tell me: 'Make prayer, To get rid of this suffering »!
»They ask me for help, without looking to find out where the evil started from, to fix it. That is to find out what the spells were to blame and caught up, to repent, to confess, to stop their suffering ». (Saint Paisios the Mount Athos)
'With repentance and confession. I have in mind many cases, people who were suffering from a curse, When they realized that they were cursed, because they were to blame, they regretted, confessed and arranged. If the one who was blamed: 'My God, I did this and that, forgive me 'and confess with pain and honesty, then God will forgive him, God is ». (Saint Paisios the Mount Athos)
'Anyone who loves, is informed of each other's love, but he also informs the other about his love.
»True love informs the other without external events. Love is to hear each other's distressing pain.
»Love is also a painful look and a reason you will say with pain to the other, When facing some difficulty. Love is to share the regret of, to rest him in the difficulty of. Love is to lift a heavy reason that will tell you.
»When you hurt internally for the other, God informs him of your love and understands it without external events. As and when our malice is not manifested, but it is internal, again the other one understands her. You see, and the devil, When presented as a 'Angel of Light', brings riot, While the Angel the Real Brushes a gentle inexpressible rejoicing ». (Saint Paisios the Mount Athos).
"To see with pain of the other who is wrong and glorify God for what he has given you, because then God will tell you:
"I, my child, so much i gave you, And you because you were brought to me hard;». To see things wide. To think about man's past, the opportunities given to him to cultivate himself and the opportunities you had and you didn't use them.
»So you will be moved by the donations that God gave you, You will glorify him for them and be humiliated, Because you did not respond. At the same time you will feel love and pain for the brother who did not have your own opportunities and you will do for him a heart prayer. There are people who do big crimes, But they have a lot of mitigating. To think of the mitigating ones ». (Saint Paisios the Mount Athos)
'Don't despair those in the world, When they are overwhelmed by many passions and their nature is disorderly and runs rush to downhill.
»But to hope in God's omnipotence. To twist the steering wheel of their solid machine on the way of God, uphill. And very quickly they will overtake other slow -moving engines that have been running ahead of many years on God's way.
»We should not despair, When we fight but we see no progress except zero continuity. All people zero do, Which more and which less. Seeing Christ our little effort, It puts a unit in the beginning and so they get our zeros value and we see a little prosperity. That is why we should not despair, But to hope for God ». (Saint Paisios the Mount Athos)
'Don't give heart to material things.
»Are some given whole materials, They spend the whole day by dealing how they will do a job well and they don't think of God at all. Not to get there. To use hands and feet at work, But not let your mind escape God.
»Not to give all your being, all the dynamism along with your heart, on the materials. So, becomes then one pagan. As much as you can in the heart jobs you don't give, hands, mind to give. Heart not give to lost, to useless things. Why then how will the heart get shaped for Christ ; When the heart is in Christ, Then the jobs are sanctified, There is also the inner mental rest constantly and one feels the real joy. Utilize your heart, Don't waste her.
»If the heart is wasted in many insignificant, does not have strength to hurt for the one that has to hurt. I will give a heart to a cancer patient, to a sore. My anxiety is for children who are in danger. I make my cross give them God enlightenment. When I have a world again, My attention is gone to each other's pain, in love for each other. I don't understand my own pain. So they are forgotten everything, gets another turn man.
»Temptation nods the heart with 'morphines'! He gets the heart with selfishness. But when the heart is given to God, then the mind will be to God and the mind at work. When you work, Don't forget Christ. To do the job with joy, But the mind and heart be in Christ. Then and you won't get tired, and you will be able to do spiritually ». (Saint Paisios the Mount Athos)
'The material crushed by material things is always overwhelmed by distress and anxiety, Why do they tremble don't get him and when don't get his soul? ". (Saint Paisios the Mount Athos)
'Removal from God is hell.
»The more bad one does one do, the more his soul suffer. The thief feels joy; Does not feel joy. While the one who makes goodness, he feels joy. And find something on the way, If he holds it and say he is his, rest will not have! Nor does he know who belongs to, nor did he wrong, neither steals but does not rest. Let alone steal.
»Even when one receives, again he does not feel the joy he feels when he gives. All the more so when stealing or when he is wronged, to feel joy. That's why you see what persons are people who do injustices. People want to sin and want God to be good. We to sin and he to forgive us. People do not believe about it and rush to sin. All the evil starts with the infidelity ». (Saint Elder Paisios the Mount Athos)
How is hell and paradise according to Saint Paisios;
'She looked, like those who are at night out in the dark see those in a room enlightened, So those who are in hell will see those in paradise. And this will be greater hell. As again those who are in the light at night, They don't see those who are out in the dark, so those who are in paradise will not see those who will be in hell.
"Why, If they saw the hellish, they would hurt, would be sad for their suffering and would not enjoy paradise, but there 'where no pain, thus, thus, But life endless ». And not only will they see them, but they will not remember whether they had a brother or father or mother, If they are not those in paradise. "In that day, all of this meditations are fired," says the chanting.
»Because if they remember them, How will he be paradise; Those who will be in paradise, will think there will be no other people, nor will they remember the sins they had made. Why, If they remember their sins, They will not be able to withstand the thought that they have regretted God. The quantity of everyone's joy in paradise will be different. Another will have a rash joy, another glass, Another whole tank.
»But everyone will feel complete and no one will know the size of joy, of the other's rejoicing. So arranged the good god because if he knew one that the other has more joy, would not be a paradise then, Because there would be the 'because he has more joy and I less;».
That is, everyone will see in paradise the glory of God according to the purity of the eyes of his soul. Visibility, however, will not be determined by God, but will depend on his own purity.
Elder, Some do not believe there is hell and paradise.
'They don't believe there is hell and paradise;
How is it possible for the dead to stay in the non -existence, since they are souls; God is immortal and man is by graceful immortal. Therefore immortal will be in hell too. Then Paradise and Hell our souls live in a degree and from this life, depending on the condition in which it is located. When one has a remorse of consciousness and feels fearful, agitation, anxiety, desperation, or is overwhelmed by hate, of envy, then he lives the hell.
"While, When there is love inside him, joy, Irene, meekness, kindness, Then he lives the paradise. The whole base is the soul, because she is what he feels both the joy and the pain. So and when man dies, If he goes to hell, will be more painful. Think of living an eternal nightmare dream and torture eternal! Here you can't stand for a few minutes an ugly dream, Come on now eternal to be in the sadness.
»So better not to go to hell. Is very heavy, After what God did for us people, to go to hell and regret him. The good God let us give good repentance, To find death in good spiritual state and to restore the heavenly kingdom of. Amen". (Saint Paisios the Mount Athos)
"Elder, Court dead can pray;
»Come to awareness and ask for help, But they can't help themselves. God wants to help the sleeping, because it hurts for their salvation, but it doesn't, Why does he have nobility. He does not want to give the right to the diarrhea to say: 'How do you save him, While he did not tire;».
»But when we pray for the sleeping, We give God the right to intervene. Most of God is even moved by God, When we make a look for the sleeping rather than the living. We can help them. As we relieve prisoners with soft drinks we are going, So we are relieved of their dead with the prayers and alms we make for their souls.
»Lives' prayers to help the anointed until the final judgment becomes. After the trial there will be no possibility to be helped. More so is God when we pray for the sleeping than the living.
»That's why our church has the grooves, the memorials. Memorials are the best lawyer for the souls of the sleeping. Have the ability to get the soul out of hell and. And you in every Divine Liturgy to read the gate for the dormant. It makes sense of wheat: sow in wear, is raised, That is, it symbolizes the death and resurrection of man ». (Saint Paisios the Mount Athos)
'The best of all the memorials we can do for the sleeping ones is our careful life.
»The struggle we will do, To cut off our flaws and brilliant our souls. Why our freedom from materials and mental passions, In addition to our own relief, It also results in the relief of the diminished grandfather of all our generation.
»The anointers feel joy, When one of their offspring is close to God. If we are not in good mental state, Then our scratched parents suffer, Our grandfather, Our grandfather, all generations. 'See what offspring we did!», They say and are distressed. But if we are in good lung state, are eager, because they too became associates to be born and God in some way is obliged to help them.
"What will give joy to the anointed is to fight to enjoy God with our lives. To meet them in paradise and live together in eternal life. Therefore, It is worthwhile to hit our 'old' man, to become 'new'. And no longer hurt himself neither himself nor other people. But to help both himself and others, Either living they are or anointed ». (Saint Paisios the Mount Athos)
'The material -dominated things is always overwhelmed by stenching and anxiety, Why when trembles don't get him and when don't get his soul.
»The stingy again, that bracked his hand from the very tightening, tightened his heart and made her stone. To cure, should visit unhappy people, to hurt. So he will be forced to slowly open his hand and soften his stone heart then, will become human heart and thus open the gate of paradise.
»Those who rest in the material world and are not worried about their soul's saving, they look like stupid birds. Which do not get alarmed in the egg, to break the shell, to go out. To enjoy the sun the celestial flying in paradise life. But they remain immovable and die in the egg shell ». (Saint Paisios the Mount Athos)
'Good god with trials educate as a good father his children.
»Out of love, by divine kindness and not by malice, nor by cosmic, legal justice. Because he wants to get back near him. That is, because he wants to save his creatures and inherit his heavenly kingdom.
»Allows trials, To fight man, to fight and give exams to patience in pain, so that the devil cannot tell him: "How do you reward him or how you save him, After not tired;». God is not interested in this life, but the other. He first takes care of us for the other life and then for her ». (Saint Paisios the Mount Athos)
'But the spiritual people, Because all the trials face them near Christ, have no their own sorrows.
»If one understands the secrets of spiritual life and the secret way in which God works, ceases to grieve for all,What is happening to him, because he gladly accepts the bitter drugs God gives him for the health of his soul. All considers the effects of his prayer, After constantly asking God to whiten his soul. But when people face trials cosmic, tortured.
»After God all of us watch, one has to be delivered in white to him. Otherwise it is suffering· He asks for everything to come, as he wants, But it doesn't come to him as he wants them, and rest does not find. Whether full is one or fasting, Whether they praise him, Whether they are wronged, must be enjoyed and treated all humbly and with patience.
»Then God will continue to give him blessings, until his soul reaches to the point of not fitting, not to withstand God's kindness. And, As long as he will go spiritually, so he will see God's love to a greater extent and mel on his love. ". (Saint Paisios the Mount Athos)
'Seded the little love you stayed, to grow love, to grow up, to fruit and reap love.
»Then you will sow the most love you will be tired and slowly fill your hold and you will have now to put it on, why, As long as you sow love, the more it increases.
»If the farmer sows after the wrist he has in the bag, will fill a sack. While, If he holds the seed in the sachet and not sowing him, The seed will worm. Must fly the seed on Earth, to sprout, to grow and make fruit.
"So is done with love. To increase love, you have to give it. But anyone who does not give even the little love he has, It's like having a generous seed, But he holds him and does not sow him. This is the wicked slave who hid the talent. Depending on the love you will offer, You will have to receive. If you don't give love, You will not receive love.
"But when we ask for the love of others exclusively for ourselves and we all want to give us and when we do some good, We are thinking about the return, We don't have accurate but cheap love. Then we are alienated from God and do not receive love neither from God nor from people.
Those who have cosmic love quarrel, Who to grab more love for himself.
»But those who have the spiritual, the precise, love, they are arguing who to give more love to the other. They love, without thinking if they love them or if others do not love them, nor do they ask others to love them. Want all to give and give them, without wanting to give them and give them. These people are loved by everyone, but more than God, with whom they relate ». (Saint Paisios the Mount Athos)
'Tests help to meet people.
»Why in essence the cross we raise is staircase to the sky. With our pain we are visited by Christ. 'We passed through fire and water, And we exported us to recreation », Says the Psalmist. Man who does not go through trials, that does not want to hurt, to suffer, who does not want to be saddened by or make him an observation, But he wants to be greeted, is out of reality.
Elder, It is not possible for people to recover otherwise and not with a test;
»Before God allows a test to come, works in a good way, But they don't understand him, so then allows the test. You see, and when a child is upside down, At first his father takes it with the good, makes him the jokes, but, When she doesn't change, then he is strictly treated, to be corrected. So God sometimes, When one does not understand with the good, gives him a test, to recover. If there was no little pain, sickness, People would become beasts, they would not approach at all to God.
»This life is false and short, A few are her years. And fortunately they are little, because the bitterness will quickly pass, which will heal our souls like the bitterness. You see, the doctors, While the burned sick people are in pain, give them bitter medicine, because with the bitter they will become well, not with the sweet. I mean that health from bitter comes out, And the salvation of the soul from the bitter comes out ». (Saint Paisios of Agioritis)
'Blessed soul, Nothing is impossible to God.
»Ask him with courtesy what you want. If you are having trouble, read David's psalms. You will see him how he was asking God and receiving what he craved.
»Those who move away from Christ, are deprived of divine lighting, Why did they let go like the fools and go to Anilio. You see the psalter written with divine lighting, What deep meanings! Gathered, If you want all theologians, all the philologists, and you will see that a psalm with such a depth cannot be made. While David was illiterate, But you see clearly that the spirit of God was led to him. ". (Saint Paisios the Mount Athos)
Saint Paisios influenced me almost in the last twenty years, was the only Saint I dealt with in my first book twenty years since then, but I had a voice inside me telling me that everything,What does this old man say is inspired, is the truth is what we need to do. Since then I have been consulting the teachings of the Holy Elder about every decision I make and I can say that I have become a happy person., close to God, but also close to my fellow human beings and I encourage you all to read his teachings, follow them and you will get rid of every problem of your life.
Μελετώντας όλους τους σοφούς του κόσμου κατέληξα σε αυτό που είπε ο Άγιος Παΐσιος ότι η μεγαλύτερη σοφία στηριζόμενη στη λογική είναι βλακεία μπροστά στη σοφία του Θεού. The Holy Elders like Saint Paisios are pure channels of God's voice and they must first hear. Saint Paisios was and continues after departing from space -time, to be the expression of the Lord, did and continues to do Miracles to those who invoke him and believe in the Lord and the Holy Elder.
Saint Paisios always speaking the words of God, gives us tips for raising our children which if we follow we will never have a problem with our children. This divinely inspired Saint Elder considered it more efficient to pray for our children, rather than arguing and grumbling when they do bad things, also considered that the most important factor for the mental and physical health of children is the positive family atmosphere.
Says Saint Paisios about raising children:
• “It is good for parents to show the child that they are upset about the disorder he is committing, but don't push it and pray ". "That's why I tell mothers to force themselves in prayer and not to force their children.".
• “At home it is necessary to have an atmosphere of love and peace. The child if he gets a little love from home and gets away at some point, he will see that he finds no love elsewhere, but only hypocrisy and will come back. But if he remembers bad scenes in the house, bruises and disputes, how to make his heart go back ";
• “We help children spiritually with our example, not by force ". "The children in the crib are still copying their parents. They stir up everything,what adults see and write in their empty cassette ". "It simply came to our notice then, he taught them to fight with joy, to avoid the temptations of life, not to be easily disturbed in the face of a difficulty, but to face it with prayer and trust in God ".
• “When the child is anxious, if his mother hugs him and caresses him and kisses him , calms down, calms down. If he is satisfied with affection and love, when it is small, then he has the power to face the problems of life ".
• "By coercion parents do not help children drown". "Parents need to control their children in a way that brings them to account, but not to create gaps between them ". "Parents should try to help their children in a manorial way, who cultivates the philotimos in their souls, to understand the good as a need ". This is how my father tried all his life to teach me, always in a good way, he always threw me at the philotimos and I did what he wanted.
"Repentance, confession cuts off the devil's right ", Saint Paisios used to say.
»Also for confession tells us not to justify: "Anyone who confesses and justifies himself, has no internal rest, as unconscious as he is. The reliefs he uses in his confession become aggravating for his conscience. While, whoever exaggerates his mistakes, because he has a subtle conscience, and accepts a great rule from the spiritual, he feels expressionless joy.
»I have noticed that those who expose their errors humbly in the spiritual and humiliate, lampoon, because they accept the Grace of God ". "So, and when you love your neighbor with MOTHER LOVE, you justify his weaknesses and do not see his mistakes, but even if you see them, forgive them. Then your heart floods with love, because you become imitators of Christ who tolerates us all. ".
Elder, how my heart will widen;
"It simply came to our notice then, you have to take something out of it and throw away your lust. If the ivy of affluence and narrow logic that drowns you dries up, your spiritual tree will now grow freely. I wish you a quick release of your heart completely, to grow and widen.
»I now know how I feel; I feel such MOTHER LOVE, such affection and tenderness, that I did not have before.
»The whole world fits within me. I want to hug all people, to help them. Because love cannot be left locked in the heart ».
Saint Paisios makes it clear to us that no Psalm says that the unjust was making a progress, there is nothing worse than injustice.
'Anything you do to have the blessing of God. Whatever man does according to the Will and the blessing he achieves, what he does with cunning does not thrive. When man is righteous he has God on his side, when he has the parsimony of God miracles happen. The honesty of man is superior to the Holy wood.
What matters is that we do to do it according to God's will and then we will have God on our side. ".
The whole secret is enlightenment, the Holy Spirit has the divine energy and descends alone when he finds the spiritual conditions in man.
In order to ascend to the heavenly Paradise, a holy Elder tells us, it is necessary to have faith in the Householder of Paradise., to love Him, to acknowledge our sinfulness, to humble ourselves to know Him and to converse with Him in prayer and to glorify Him both when He helps us and when He tests us.
'When man stays in his physical knowledge, it remains in nature and does not ascend to Heaven. When man is humbled and enlightened then the mind is sanctified, while before enlightenment the energy of the mind is carnal. The wisest thing I will think, the wisest solution I will find is the greatest nonsense, when she has selfishness in her, while humility is real wisdom.
»Humiliation helps all, wants a fight . Spiritual people sometimes pretend not to have God, he did not let God act. God knows how it works. In other words, there are spiritual means to deal with difficult situations. Spiritually, We are going to act in the world ».
The whole secret to having a connection with the Creator, to have everything, is to praise God.
This is what Father Paisios used to tell us: “You do not feel Heaven, why do not you praise God, when man moves in the realm of doxology; he rejoices in everything, when man thanks God even for the few, then comes the blessing of God richly ". So we praise God for what is happening to us.
Saint Paisios genuine Christ's expressor thinks that in order to be truly happy, we must keep our hearts pure, not to make bad calculations (thoughts). Only if the Divine Spirit settles permanently in our heart and we feel the presence of God will we be truly happy.
“The Holy Spirit, when he sees our pure heart, comes and dwells in us, because he loves purity. The whole basis is good reasoning. This is what elevates man, alters him for the better. We must be careful not to accept the devil's telegrams (negative thoughts) so as not to defile "the Temple of the Holy Spirit" and remove the Grace of God, so we get dark ". "It simply came to our notice then, man is purified mentally, moves reverently, pacifies, and his life is Paradise. Different, he sees everything with suspicion and his life becomes hell. He makes his life hell on his own ".
Only if we follow the Lord, we save our soul. If we follow our "I", we lose it.
It is so natural that what Saint Paisios told us always happens: if we do not have God in our heart, then the devil enters us and ignites the passions in us, which is the focus on serving our earthly vehicle and not our soul which is our true self.
The cause of the failure of all marriages is affluence, Selfishness.
When there is intense affluence we can not fit in with anyone. Marriage means uniting in one body, I erase my "I", I accept the other as he is. I do not impose what I want on him, I do not want to change him. On the other hand, of course, I don't need to allow him to "level" me.. This of course is achieved not by imposing the "I", but with extreme humility. All creation submits to the humble man, even wild animals, Saint Paisios tells us.
As much as our body, the leather body we are wearing, tested, so the soul is sanctified, Saint Paisios tells us, And it continues: "As long as I benefited from the illness, I did not benefit from all the exercises and prayers I did all my life ".
When our flesh is humbled, with vigilance, fasting, prayer, then our soul is humbled and then the Grace of God visits it and we are saved.
Disease is ultimately a visit of God, because with disease the whole of our being is humiliated, then Aunt Grace visits us and we are filled with fullness and joy.
The devil is ingenious, he has infinite cunning and his purpose is our destruction:
"Every machine plots for daily loss". (Saint Nile)
Saint Paisios tells us that there are demons with specialty, every man fights differently, because people have a different character. That is why he launches a big attack on those who start living their spiritual lives and brings them great misfortunes to disappoint them., to stop the spiritual life.
Their egotists strike at selfishness, he hits their greedy people with money, flirting with food and the desire for carnal contact with every person of the opposite sex he meets. He puts arrogant thoughts on the respectable humble man, that he is good, he is perfect, worth a lot. The devil understands which of the three passions that dominate man, greed, lust and ambition, there is weakness and it hits him.
The devil is flamboyant. The devil's goal is to believe that he does not exist. It is presented with various masks. Hiding, surprises us, confuses our minds.
"Joy belongs to Christ, the sorrow is of the devil. Whoever has medicine in him means that he is not leaning on Christ. Selfishness brings despair and sadness. Anyone who is upset by philotimos, he throws the weight on himself and has consolation and rest from God. Anyone who is upset by selfishness, throws the weight on others.
»If we are justified, we give space to the devil and he comes and upsets us. Let's see what we have to choose, the humility that gives us comfort or the selfishness that brings sorrow, anxiety and agitation. Selfish people are always bitter, they always feel wronged by others.
"When you see a man have great sorrow and grief, while he lacks nothing, means that he is far from God, has infinite "I". The man who is ungrateful and grumbles, his trials come and he suffers. The grumpy man is constantly chased by temptation. The tagalaki (the devil) he constantly wants to see us sad, that's his job.
"The antidote to sorrow is praise to God. You are not happy, you do not see the sky, why do not you praise God. Keep praising God for everything,what do you have, doxology glorifies everything. When man praises God for the few, infinite blessing comes to him from God ". (saint Paisius)
To become empty people, free from our "I", our old selves, it is necessary to identify our will with the will of God. The sadness, the jealousy, envy, they come from our "I" and are a perversion of the forces of our soul, Saint Paisios tells us.
Our Paisius Saint speaks of the power of the Holy Cross: "Elder, I fear the Tagalaki ".
"What's to fear; The tags have no power. Christ is omnipotent. The temptation is rotten. Cross not antisense; The devil's weapons are weak. Our Christ has armed us by His Cross. When we let go of the spiritual weapons, then the enemy has power. An orthodox priest shows a small cross to a magician and makes the demon, who invokes his magic, tremble. ".
Saint Paisios answers the question, because the devil is afraid of the cross:
"Why, when Christ accepts impressions, slaps and scratches, then the kingdom and power of the devil is overthrown. Patience is the spiritual defense and humility is the greatest weapon against the devil. The greatest balm of Christ's cross sacrifice is that the devil was crushed.
»After the Crucifixion of Christ, it is now like the snake that has its venom removed or like the dog that has its teeth removed.. The medicine is removed from the devil, teeth are removed from dogs, demons. Now the demons are disarmed and we with the Cross are armed.
Nothing, nothing can not do demons plasma God, when we do not give them rights. Only make a fuss, They have no power ".
"Nowadays, unfortunately trust in logic, shakes the faith from the foundations and filled the souls with doubts. That is why we are deprived of miracles, because the miracle is not explained by logic ". (saint Paisius) Life is to live in the truth that is the words of Christ and not to live in the logic that is an analysis of the limited data we have.
"With prayer Christ gives us the opportunity to speak with Him. Prayer is conversation with Christ. By prayer we can talk with Him then. Prayer is to put Christ in our hearts, to love Christ with all our heart. The more one prays, the more confident he feels ". (saint Paisius).
The return of the mind to the heart is done by the clean (to strip rubble to show God, like St. Paisius said) and the "incessant prayer". Then the Lord dwells in our heart and constantly nourishes us with His Grace. Without God we can not do anything, without the constant invocation of the name of the Lord we can not do anything.
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