The more we’ve prepared, the more room we’ve made, the more we’ve suffered, the more we’ve loved, the more we’ve cried aloud- wept and lamented without restraint- the more we’ll have received God Himself. Needless to say, all of this remains hidden beneath a cheerful countenance, beneath a smile, beneath the depths of true joy, beneath an entire life that witnesses to God by its tranquility, love and truth, because we know that, no matter what happens, God for us is everything,

Just as the root of the vine ministers and distributes to the branches the enjoyment of its own natural and inherent qualities, so the Only-begotten Word of God imparts to the Saints, as it were, an affinity to His own nature which is that of God the Father, by giving them the Spirit...

For our Lord came for this reason, that He might change and transform and renew and recreate the soul which had been overturned by the passions…mingling with it His own Spirit of divinity… to make new men, anointing them which His own light of knowledge, that He might put in them the new wine which is His Spirit

To speak in the name of Christ means to speak from within the truth that Christ is. It is not to speak from within some theoretical truth or particular point of view, even if doctrinal. Rather, it is to speak from a profound relationship with the Lord Christ, who is the truth, so that our words will convey not only their semantic meaning but become life to those who receive them

“I advise you this: let the scale of mercy always be prevalent within you, until you perceive in yourself that mercy which God has for the world. Let this our state become a mirror where we may see in ourselves that likeness and true image which naturally belong to the Divine Essence. By these things and their like we are enlightened so as to be moved toward God with a transparent understanding…” Mar Isaac the Syrian

“Silence is the sacrament of the world to come.”St. Isaac the Syrian