Bread is food for the body and holiness is food for the soul: prayer is food for the intellect.
– St. Evagrios the Solitary

The ear of the still intellect will be made to hear marvelous things from God.
– St. Hesychios the Priest

When the heart has acquired stillness, it will perceive the heights and depths of knowledge.
– St. Hesychios the Priest

From this day, from this hour, from this minute, let us strive to love God above all and fulfill His holy will.
– St. Herman of Alaska 

It is a good thing to trust in God’s mercy, but to trust in God and then go on sinning without repentance is to mock God.
– St. Nicholai Velimirovic

All of culture and all that is in culture is about the Kingdom of God — either for or against.
– Fr. Alexander Schmemann

It is love that asks, that seeks, that knocks, that finds, and that is faithful to what it finds.
– St. Augustine 

Every person is a house of God. He is destined to be a dwelling of the Holy Spirit, so that — within him — might be offered unceasing doxology to God.
– St. Nikon of Optima

“The will of God is a curse to the demon. It is the law to the unregenerate man. It is freedom to those who have attained salvation.”
– Mpn. Anthony of Sourezh

Christianity is not merely what a man does with his solitude. It is not even what God does with His solitude. It tells of God descending into the coarse publicity of history and there enacting what can — and must — be talked about.
– C. S. Lewis