Posted in Humility, tagged the judgment on April 2, 2008 | No Comments »
Abba Orsisius said, “If an unbaked brick is put in the foundations near the river, it does not last for a single day, but baked, it lasts like stone.
the man with a carnal disposition of soul, who has not been in the fire through fear of God like Joseph, utterly disintegrates when he accepts a [...]
Posted in Humility, tagged complacence, Humility, orthodox, virtue on February 22, 2008 | No Comments »
“I prefer a sinful person, who knows his faults and is humbled, over a self-complacent person of virtue.” - Abba Sarmatias
Posted in Humility, tagged apophasis, ignorance, knowledge, Theology on February 15, 2008 | No Comments »
All I know is that I don’t know anything - Elder Gabriel of Kazaa
Posted in Humility, tagged cemetary, death, desert fathers, Humility, insults, monasticism, praise on January 23, 2008 | No Comments »
A desert father was teaching his disciple about humility. He told the young man to spend the day in the cemetery and to yell insults at the graves. The young monk then spent the day hurling rebukes and insults at the dead. The next day, the abba told him to spend the day praising the [...]
Posted in Humility, tagged achievements, forgetfulness, Humility, nothing, pride on January 20, 2008 | No Comments »
“And he answered me, saying, The most High has made this world for many, but the world to come for few. . . . For as the husbandman sows much seed upon the ground, and plants many trees, and yet the thing that is sown good in his season does not come up, nor does [...]
Posted in Humility, tagged astonishment, corruption, Ezra, fear, forgetfulness, grasshoppers, Humility, nothing, The World on January 20, 2008 | No Comments »
“How should thy vessel then be able to comprehend the way of the Highest and, the world being now outwardly corrupted, to understand the corruption that is evident in my sight? . . . And we pass away out of the world as grasshoppers, and our life is astonishment and fear, and we are not [...]
Posted in Humility, tagged abba tithoesm, achievements, desert fathers, forgetfulness, Humility, inferiority, nothing, Prayer, self-control on January 20, 2008 | No Comments »
“The way of humility is this: self-control, prayer, and thinking yourself inferior to all creatures.” - Abba Tithoes
Posted in Humility, tagged desert fathers, goats, Humility, nothing, sheep, virtue on January 20, 2008 | No Comments »
“I am one of the goats, but as for the sheep, God alone knows who they are.” — Sayings of the Desert Fathers
Posted in Humility, tagged concern, hope, self on January 20, 2008 | No Comments »
“He who has once placed his hope in God no longer is concerned over himself.” · St. Paisius Velichkovsky
Posted in Humility, tagged achievements, forgetfulness, Humility, nothing on January 20, 2008 | No Comments »
“Humility is constant forgetfulness of one’s achievements.” · St. John Climacus
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