One who is angry with us is sick; we must apply a plaster to their heart - love; we must treat them kindly, speaking gently, lovingly. And if they have no deep-rooted malice against us, you will see their heart or malice, melt away - good will conquer evil. (#JohnofKronstadt)

Falsehood separates us from God ... False thoughts, false words, false feelings, false desires - Behold the aggregate of lies that leads us to illusion, and rejection of God. (Nicholas of Serbia) #NicholasofSerbia #ChristianSpirituality

Every Christian should be both conservative and radical; conservative in preserving the faith and radical in applying it. (John Stott) #ChristianSpirituality #JohnStott

The holy Abba Isaiah said: If one should speak to his brother with guile, he will not escape spiritual harm. (Ancient Patericon) #AncientPatericon #ChristisnSpirituality

Saints not only desire to love and speak truth with their lips, but seek to be true within; they will not lie even in the closet of their hearts, for God is there to listen; they scorn double meanings, evasions, equivocations, white lies, flatteries, and deceptions. (CHSpurgeon)

God grants His communion to all who love Him.vIntimacy with God is life, light and sweetness, together with sharing all the good things that he has- and these are eternal and without end. (Irenaeus of Lyons) #IrenaeusofLyons #ChristianSpirituality

When you live in the light of eternity, your values change. (Rick Warren) #RickWarren #ChristianSpirituality

Instead of REPENTANCE, people are getting all kinds of counterfeit spiritual experiences. There seems to be almost no discernment at all. (Andrew Strom) #ChristianSpirituality #AndrewStrom

Pursue true love for everyone, a clear, transparent and genuine heart in which our souls become illuminated with joy and reflect the very image of God himself - for those who so love resemble God himself. (Martyrius Sahdona) #MartyriusSahdona #ChristianSpirituality

Affliction shows the power of Christ's blood, when it gives peace in an hour of trouble, when it can make happy in sickness, poverty, persecution and death. Do not be surprised if you suffer, but glorify God. #RMMcCheyne (Robert Murray McCheyne) #ChristianSpirituality

Do not disdain the commandment to love, for through it you become a child of God, and when you break it, you become a child of Hell. (Maximus the Confessor) #MaximustheConfessor #ChristianSpirituality

Adversity is always unexpected and unwelcomed. It is an intruder and a thief, and yet in the hands of God, adversity becomes the means through which His supernatural power is demonstrated. (Charles Stanley) #CharlesStanley #ChristianSpirituality

Should pain, suffering, sorrow, and grief, rise like a cloud and hide from your view the Sun of Righteousness, do not be dismayed; in the end this cloud will descend in showers of blessing on you, and the Sun of Righteousness rise on you, never to set. #SadhuSundarSingh)

God is merciful with crowning mercy, when he brings us into heaven: giving for every combat we have had, a crown; for every tear, a pearl; for every light affliction, a mass of glory; for a drop of gall, a sea of joy. (William Jenkyn) #WilliamJenkyn #ChristianSpirituality

Faith is a knowledge of the benevolence of God toward us, and a certain persuasion of His veracity. (John Calvin) #JohnCalvin #ChristianSpirituality

I am mended by my sickness, enriched by my poverty, and strengthened by my weakness. (Abraham Wright) #ChristianSpirituality #AbrahamWright

For wherever love disappears, hatred immediately appears in its place. And if God is love, then hatred is the devil. Therefore as one who has love has God within himself, so those who have hatred within themselves nurture the devil within themselves. (#BasiltheGreat)

Is life not full of opportunities for learning love? Every man and woman every day has a thousand of them. The world is not a playground; it is a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday, but an education. And the one eternal lesson for us all is how better we can love. #HenryDrummond