Quotes by John of Kronstadt

John of Kronstadt

…if you wish to get pure air into your room, or if you go for a walk in the fresh air, think of the pure and of the unclean heart. Many of us like to have pure air in the room (and this is an excellent habit), or are fond of walking in the fresh air, but they do not even think of the necessity of the purity of the spirit or heart (of, so to say, spiritual air, the breath of life); and, living in the fresh air, they allow themselves to indulge in impure thoughts, impure movements of the heart, and even impurity of language, and most impure carnal actions.

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…people mostly pray as if there were no God with them, or as if He did not heed their prayers. Let us ascribe to the Lord at least the same amount of attention that good parents show to the requests of their children, at least that provident and attentive love which good parents have for their children.

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…when seeking material light, remember the spiritual light which is indispensable for the soul, and without which it remains in the darkness of the passions, in the darkness of spiritual death. ‘I am come as a light into the world,’ says the Lord, ‘that whosoever believeth on Me, should not abide in darkness’ (Jn. 12:46).

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‘For where two or three are gathered together in My name, there am I in the midst of them’ (Mt. 18:20). I reverence even two or three praying together, for in accordance with the Lord’s promise He Himself is in the midst of them.

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‘Hail, you who are highly favored, the Lord is with you’ (Lk. 1:28)! Thus does the holy Church invoke the most holy Virgin, the Mother of God. But the Lord is also with every pious soul that believes in Him. The Lord’s abiding with the Virgin Mary before she conceived the Savior is not a particularity proper to the most pure Virgin alone. The Lord is with every believing soul: ‘The Lord is with you.’ These words may be said to everyone who keeps the Lord’s commandments.

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‘If he trespass against you seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to you, saying, I repent; you shall forgive him’ (Lk. 17:4). As the Searcher of hearts, the Lord knows that men are liable to very frequent trespass, and that, having fallen, they often rise up again; therefore He has given us the commandment to frequently forgive trespasses, and He Himself is the first to fulfill His holy word. As soon as you say from your whole heart, ‘I repent,’ you will be immediately forgiven.

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‘They straightway left their nets and followed Him’ (Mt. 4:20). The Apostles did not grudge leaving their nets for the Lord’s sake, although they were perhaps their only property, and precious to them because they lived by them; and we, likewise, for the Lord’s sake, ought to leave everything that hinders our following Him ? that is, all the many and various nets in which the enemy entangles us in life.

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‘With God all things are possible’ (Mk. 10:27). With God the thought itself is deed. He speaks and it is. Short and clear. And all the worlds stand by the Word of God.

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A Christian must always be kind, gracious, and wise in order to conquer evil by good.

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A man becomes spiritual insofar as he lives a spiritual life. He begins to see God in all things, to see His power and might in every manifestation. Always and everywhere he sees himself abiding in God and dependent on God for all things. But insofar as a man lives a bodily life, so much he does he do bodily things; He doesn’t see God in anything, even in the the most wondrous manifestations of His Divine power. In all things he sees body, material, everywhere and always – “God is not before his eyes.” (Ps. 35:2)

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Quotes by John of Kronstadt

John of Kronstadt

‘For where two or three are gathered together in My name, there am I in the midst of them’ (Mt. 18:20). I reverence even two or three praying together, for in accordance with the Lord’s promise He Himself is in the midst of them.

‘With God all things are possible’ (Mk. 10:27). With God the thought itself is deed. He speaks and it is. Short and clear. And all the worlds stand by the Word of God.

A Christian must always be kind, gracious, and wise in order to conquer evil by good.

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