Quotes by John Climacus

John Climacus

A characteristic of those who are still progressing in blessed mourning is temperance and silence of the lips; and of those who have made progress – freedom from anger and patient endurance of injuries; and of the perfect – humility, thirst for dishonors, voluntary craving for involuntary afflictions, non- condemnation of sinners, compassion even beyond one’s strength. The first are acceptable, the second laudable; but blessed are those who hunger for hardship and thirst for dishonor, for they shall be filled with the food whereof there can be no satiety.

Blessed

Compassion

Humility

A discerning man, when he eats grapes, takes only the ripe ones and leaves the sour. Thus also the discerning mind carefully marks the virtues which he sees in any person. A mindless man seeks out the vices and failings … Even if you see someone sin with your own eyes, do not judge; for often even your eyes are deceived.

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A proud monk needs no demon. He has turned into one, an enemy to himself.

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A servant of the Lord stands bodily before men, but mentally he is knocking at the gates of heaven with prayer.

Heaven

Men

Prayer

An angel fell from Heaven without any other passion except pride, and so we may ask whether it is possible to ascend to Heaven by humility alone, without any other of the virtues.

Angel

Humility

Passion

As fire does not give birth to snow, so those who seek honor here will not enjoy it in heaven… As those who climb a rotten ladder are in danger, so all honor, glory, and power are opposed to humility.

Fire

Humility

Snow

As long as anger lives, it continues to be the fruitful parent of many unhappy children.

Anger

Children

Long

Ascend, my brothers, ascend eagerly. Let your hearts’ resolve be to climb. Listen to the voice of the one who says: ‘Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of our God’ (Isa. 2:3), Who makes our feet to be like the feet of the deer, ‘Who sets us on the high places, that we may be triumphant on His road’ (Hab. 3:19).

Brother

Christian

Heart

Become aware of God, in whose presence you are while you pray . . . Then take a formula of prayer and recite it with perfect attention both to the words you are saying and to the Person to whom you are saying them.

Perfect

Prayer

Spiritual

Confession is like a bridle that keeps the soul which reflects on it from committing sin, but anything left unconfessed we continue to do without fear as if in the dark.

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Dark

Soul

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Fire

Forgetfulness

Forgiveness

Forgiving

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Greed

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Judging

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Quotes by John Climacus

John Climacus

A proud monk needs no demon. He has turned into one, an enemy to himself.

A servant of the Lord stands bodily before men, but mentally he is knocking at the gates of heaven with prayer.

An angel fell from Heaven without any other passion except pride, and so we may ask whether it is possible to ascend to Heaven by humility alone, without any other of the virtues.

As fire does not give birth to snow, so those who seek honor here will not enjoy it in heaven… As those who climb a rotten ladder are in danger, so all honor, glory, and power are opposed to humility.

As long as anger lives, it continues to be the fruitful parent of many unhappy children.

Become aware of God, in whose presence you are while you pray . . . Then take a formula of prayer and recite it with perfect attention both to the words you are saying and to the Person to whom you are saying them.

Confession is like a bridle that keeps the soul which reflects on it from committing sin, but anything left unconfessed we continue to do without fear as if in the dark.

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