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

“Concentrate on this name of our Lord Jesus Christ with a contrite heart, the words welling up from your lips and drawing you to them. And do not depict him with an image in your mind but concentrate on calling to him: ‘Our Lord Jesus, have mercy on me.’ Do these things in peace and you will see the peace of his divinity within you; he will run off the darkness of the passions that dwell within you and he will purify the inner person (2 Cor 4:16, Eph 3:16) just as Adam was pure in paradise. This is the blessed name that John the Evangelist pronounced: ‘Light of the world and unending sweetness, the food of life and the true food’” (Jn 6:48, 6:55, 8:12).

Abba Anthony said, "I saw the snares that the enemy spreads out over the world and I said groaning, "What can get through from such snares?" Then I heard a voice saying to me, 'Humility.'"