"Theater is the adversary of Christian life; it is the offspring of the spirit of this world, and not of the Spirit of God. True children of the Church do not attend it."

"The flesh flourishes, but the soul withers."

"The uneducated are infants in Christ, to whom the Lord sometimes reveals His secrets."

"Gluttony is the seed of decay and destruction of the soul."

"The lusts and desires of the flesh, or the old man, are countless, but they are a dream, a vanity, a phantom, nothing."

"Forced prayer develops sanctimony."

"Leo Tolstoy and writers like him, whose number is countless, have appeared and live on Earth to cloud and corrupt with their godlessness, faithlessness, and anarchy the multitude of people who follow them and read their blasphemous writings. Lord, destroy them from the Earth or turn them to faith, humble their demonic pride!"

"The character of people in the second half of the 19th century is self-worship, self-legislation (autonomy), materialism in life, and spiritual skepticism (unbelief)."

"The character of the present, temporary life is delusion."

"Conscience in people is nothing other than the voice of the omnipresent God walking in the hearts of men."

"Heed: for the purification of your heart from sins, you will receive an infinite reward—you will see God, your all-good Creator, your Provider. The struggle to cleanse the heart is difficult because it is accompanied by great deprivations and sorrows, but the reward is great."

"A priest, as a physician of souls, must himself be free from soul ailments, i.e., from passions, in order to heal others."

"Pride is a demon; malice is the same demon; envy is the same demon; lewd filth is the same demon; forced blasphemy is the same demon; forced doubt in the truth is a demon; despondency is a demon; there are various passions, but in all of them one Satan acts; various passions, but together they are the barking of Satan in various ways, and a person becomes one, one spirit with Satan."

"Avarice is from the devil, generosity is from God."

"A person subject to passions, what do you need? Life, you say. Why are you striving? For life. But are you living a true life? Reason and experience compel me to say no. So, what constitutes your life? Faith, hope, and love—reason and experience tell me. The life of our soul is God, a living faith in Him, and love for Him, love for people like me—they are the peace and breadth of my heart, without them I am a martyr of sin, a slave, a captive of passions; my life passes in sorrow and distress."

"Praying without sincere feeling is hypocrisy."

"Orthodox Christians are like a family, the children of Yessou Christ, and in a good family, the mother is always highly respected (the Mother of God), just as older brothers are respected and honored by the younger ones, and these latter imitate the former."

"Arius, the heretic, reduced the Creator to the rank of creatures and did not recognize Him as consubstantial and co-eternal with the Father, a single Being with Him and the Holy Spirit."

"Adam and Eve ruined themselves through gluttony."

"Always consider it a great blessing to converse in prayer with the Lord, or with the Most Pure Lady, the Mother of God, or with Angels, or with holy people, and pray to Them always with joy and with a tremble of reverence, remembering with Whom you, an unclean and insignificant worm, are speaking."

"All the saints will be witnesses to the salvific nature of the Christian faith against all our learned secular ignoramuses who pride themselves on their false education, against all non-Orthodox Christians, Jews, Muslims, pagans, and especially against those who are only called Orthodox Christians but have long since changed their faith in practice. That is why martyrs are called “witnesses” in Greek. Remember, Christian, how many witnesses will be against you at the judgment of Christ."

"The body is only the material shell of the soul, its house."

"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God."

"The Church is eternal truth, because it is united with Truth—Christ—and is animated by the Spirit of Truth."

"Churches are spiritual schools, clinics, places of enlightenment, rest stops for travelers to heaven, houses of charity where we are shown the greatest benefits and divine assistance to prepare us for settling in heaven."

"The Church is truly an earthly paradise."

"God is the creative, living, and life-giving Thought."

"Humility is the foundation of all virtues."

"Icons are the Church's response to the crying need of our nature."

"Demon-possessed individuals are peaceful until they are brought close to a sacred object. When they are, an extraordinary force, a repulsion from the sacred, blasphemy, spitting on the sacred, and a piercing scream emerge from them."

"The death of a true Christian is no more than a sleep until the day of resurrection."

"The devil is such an evil needle that at all times and everywhere it climbs into your heart's eyes, clouding and suppressing them; it is such a poisonous dust that constantly floats in our mental atmosphere and settles caustically on the heart, eating away at it and drilling it."

"It has been calculated astronomically that the distance from the Earth to the Sun is one hundred and fifty million versts (approximately 160 million km)."

"The day is a symbol of the transience of earthly life."

"Democracy is in hell, and in heaven, it is the Kingdom."

"Intellectuals have abandoned heavenly wisdom and grasped at earthly vanity, falsehood, mirage, and impenetrable darkness."

"The Lord is the perfect Possessor and Master of all creation."

"The Jesuits, to please the Pope and their selfish base views and goals, distorted the law of conscience and the law of the Gospel, asserting that to achieve selfish or religious goals, Catholics can use any illegal means."

"To repent means to feel in your heart the falsehood, madness, and guilt of your sins—it means to realize that you have offended your Creator, Lord, Father, and Benefactor, who is infinitely holy and infinitely disgusted by sin—it means to desire with all your soul to correct and atone for them."

"To sin is a great disadvantage and madness."

"A state or any society is a body."

"Superficial prayer is hypocrisy, blasphemy, vain prayer."

"Send your petition to God or the saints by the telegraph of faith, and you will immediately receive an answer."

"A human who is embittered against us is a sick person."

"Often, prayer is called something that is not prayer at all: a person went to church, stood there, looked at the icons, or first at the people, at their faces, their outfits, and says: I prayed to God; stood at home in front of an icon, nodded his head, said memorized words without understanding or sympathy, and says: I prayed to God."

"Every person on Earth is sick with the fever of sin, with the blindness of sin, possessed by the rage of sin; and since sin consists primarily of malice and pride, every person, as one suffering from the illness of sin, must be treated with gentle love—an important truth that we often forget; we often, very often, act contrary to it: to malice, we add malice with our own bitterness; to pride, we oppose with pride. This is how evil grows, rather than diminishes; it is not cured, but becomes more infected. Lord, have mercy on us, have mercy on humanity!"

"Mercy is to love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, to those who assault you, to those who persecute you, to protect the persecuted, and so on."

"Envy in a Christian is madness."

"Consider all sweetness as sweepings and filth; do not love anything earthly, do not pity anything earthly for a person, and do not hold enmity against him for anything. Love seeks to please the beloved and to value nothing for his sake."