Strive with all your might to bring your interior activity into accord with God, and you will overcome exterior passions.
I have often repented of having spoken, but never of having been silent.
O God, do not leave me. I have done nothing good in Your sight, but according to Your goodness, let me now make a beginning of good.
Brethren, the just man shall scarcely be saved. What, then, will become of the sinner?
