Theophan the Recluse Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“Examine yourself to see whether you have within you a strong sense of your own self importance, or negatively, whether you have failed to realize that you are nothing. This feeling of self-importance is deeply hidden, but it controls the whole of our life. Its first demand is that everything should be as we wish it, and as soon as this is not so we complain to God and are annoyed with people.”
-- Theophan the Recluse

#Love #Strong #Self
“To pray is to descend with the mind into the heart, and there to stand before the face of the Lord, ever-present, all seeing, within you.”
-- Theophan the Recluse

#Heart #Mind #Faces
“The chief evil with relation to the body is love for the body and pitying it. This takes away all the soul's authority over the body and makes the soul the slave of the body. And on the contrary, one who does not spare the body will not be disturbed in whatever he does by apprehensions born of blind love of life. How fortunate is one who is trained to this from childhood!”
-- Theophan the Recluse

#Love Life #Evil #Childhood
“The Lord chose the apostles, that they should be with Him, and that he might send them forth to preach, and to have power to heal sicknesses, and to cast out devils.”
-- Theophan the Recluse

#Humility #Devil #Might
“Every Christian is chosen-chosen for similar deeds, namely: to be with the Lord, through unceasing remembrance of Him and awareness of His omnipresence, through the preaching and fulfillment of His commandments, and through a readiness to confess one's faith in Him. In those circles where such a confession is made, it is a loud sermon for all to hear.”
-- Theophan the Recluse

#Christian #Humility #Circles
“Every Christian has the power to heal infirmities-not of others, but his own, and not of the body, but of the soul-that is, sins and sinful habits-and to cast out devils, rejecting evil thoughts sown by them, and extinguishing the excitement of passions enflamed by them.”
-- Theophan the Recluse

#Christian #Humility #Passion
“Do this and you will be an apostle, a fulfiller of what the Lord chose you for, an accomplisher of your calling as messenger. When at first you succeed in all this, then perhaps the Lord will appoint you as a special ambassador-to save others after you have saved yourself; and to help those who are tempted, after you yourself pass through all temptations, and through all experiences in good and evil.”
-- Theophan the Recluse

#Humility #Evil #Temptation
“But your job is to work upon yourself: for this you are chosen; the rest is in the hands of God. He who humbles himself shall be exalted.”
-- Theophan the Recluse

#Jobs #Humility #Hands
“Remember that each of us has his own cross. The Golgotha of this cross is our heart: it is being lifted or implanted through a zealous determination to live according to the Spirit of God. Just as salvation of the world is by the Cross of God, so our salvation is by our crucifixion on our own cross.”
-- Theophan the Recluse

#Determination #Heart #Zealous

Saint Theophan The Recluse Orthodox Quote Of The Day Orthodoxquoteoftheday Com Orthodox Quotes Spiritual Wisdom Spiritual Quotes

Top 10 Theophan The Recluse Quotes 2021 Update Quotefancy

St Theophan The Recluse Orthodox Quote Of The Day Orthodoxquoteoftheday Com Recluse Quotes Orthodox Quotes Recluse

Theophan The Recluse Quote To Pray Is To Descend With The Mind Into The

St Theophan The Recluse

You may also like:

Ambrose
Saint
Anthony of Sourozh
Writer
Athanasius of Alexandria
Saint
Elder Paisios of Mount Athos
Ephrem the Syrian
Saint
Gregory of Nazianzus
Saint
Gregory of Nyssa
Saint
John Climacus
Saint
John of Kronstadt
Saint
John of Shanghai and San Francisco
Saint
Pope Gregory I
Saint Basil
Saint
Saint John Chrysostom
Author
Seraphim of Sarov
Monk
Seraphim Rose
Author
Silouan the Athonite
Monk
Symeon the New Theologian
Poet
Tikhon of Zadonsk
Saint
Ambrose of Optina
Canon
Ignatius Bryanchaninov
Saint