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1829–1908
John of Kronstadt (born Ivan Ilyich Sergiev; November 19, 1829, Sura, Arkhangelsk Governorate — January 2, 1908) is a saint of the Russian Orthodox Church, a priest, an ascetic, a wonderworker, and a Russian ultranationalist.
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Conscience in people is nothing other than the voice of the omnipresent God walking in the hearts of men.
The life of the heart is love; its death is malice and enmity against a brother.
The lusts and desires of the flesh, or the old man, are countless, but they are a dream, a vanity, a phantom, nothing.
Caprice is the germ of heart decay, the rust of the heart, the moth of love, the seed of malice, an abomination to the Lord.
The Liturgy is a supper, a meal of God's love for the human race.
God is good and all-good, and you, His image, should be good.
God is the creative, living, and life-giving Thought.
The enemy sometimes acts through evil people.
The character of people in the second half of the 19th century is self-worship, self-legislation (autonomy), materialism in life, and spiritual skepticism (unbelief).
Theater puts Christian life to sleep, destroys it, giving Christian life the character of pagan life.
Send your petition to God or the saints by the telegraph of faith, and you will immediately receive an answer.
The death of a true Christian is no more than a sleep until the day of resurrection.
A priest, as a physician of souls, must himself be free from soul ailments, i.e., from passions, in order to heal others.
The ringing of bells is a call to a conversation with God, a call of children to the Father, a call to appear before Him.
Icons are the Church's response to the crying need of our nature.
Word is the expression of truth, the very truth, being, action.
The body is only the material shell of the soul, its house.
The character of the present, temporary life is delusion.
The day is a symbol of the transience of earthly life.
A human who is embittered against us is a sick person.
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