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On Idle Talk
Once, a brother asked a young monk about the benefit of speaking. The monk replied, "If your words are mere chatter, stay away from them. If they are useful, then take the opportunity and speak. But no matter how useful they are, don't speak for a long time. Be quick and cut the conversation short, and in this way you will find peace."
(excerpt from Evergetinos, Volumes I-II)
An Elder said: "A man who sits in his cell and studies the Psalms is like one who stands outside looking for the King. He who beseeches God with weeping is like one who grasps the King's feet and begs him to show mercy, as did that harlot who, within a few moments, washed away all of her sins through her tears."
The Evergetinos
“A certain brother asked Abba Sisoes: ‘Counsel me, father, for I have fallen to sin. What am I to do?’
The Elder said to him: ‘When you fall, get up again.’
‘Ah! Father, I got up, yet I fell to the same sin again.’ The Elder, so as not to discourage the brother, answered: ‘Then get up, again and again’.”
~St. Sisoes the Great, in the Evergetinos
(Icon: St. Sisoes the Great Before the Tomb of Alexander the Great via sinai.princeton.edu)
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Sternly look at yourself, if someone should upset you about any matter whatsoever and sadness or anger should be roused within you; remain silent and say no more than what you must, until your heart is first made calm by prayer and after you have cleared up things with your brother. — St. Abba Isaiah the Solitary #genuineorthodoxy #humility #discernment #loveofthebrethren #confessionoffaith #ecumenismisheresy #patristicecclesiology #noeticfaculty #theevergetinos #evergetinos #stisaiahthesolitary
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No one should despair ever
No one should despair ever From the Life of St. Synkletike
THE EVERGETINOS
Book One.
Hypothesis One
No one should despair ever, even if he has committed many sins, but should have hope that, through repentance, he shall be saved.
From the Life of St. Synkletike
The Blessed Synkletike said: We should laud remiss and indolent souls who are easily exhausted in the struggle for good, as well as those souls who are easily discouraged and fall to despair.…
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