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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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Avarice is from the devil, generosity is from God.
Sweets, money—are worse than ordinary dust, sweepings, because they clutter the soul, while ordinary sweepings only clutter the body, clothing, or a room.
The flesh flourishes, but the soul withers.
Theater is the adversary of Christian life; it is the offspring of the spirit of this world, and not of the Spirit of God. True children of the Church do not attend it.
Doubt and scorn for the word, like the poison of the spirit of falsehood, must be cut off.
Food and drink should be used only to strengthen one's forces, and not for gluttony.
The name of the Savior, invoked with faith, works miracles, casts out demons, extinguishes passions, and heals diseases.
A neighbor is a being equal to me, the same human as I, the very image of God.
The science of sciences is to conquer the sin that lives in us.
Superficial prayer is hypocrisy, blasphemy, vain prayer.
Adam and Eve ruined themselves through gluttony.
To sin is a great disadvantage and madness.
The Church is truly an earthly paradise.
Love without thinking: love is simple. Love will never make a mistake.
Intellectuals have abandoned heavenly wisdom and grasped at earthly vanity, falsehood, mirage, and impenetrable darkness.
The uneducated are infants in Christ, to whom the Lord sometimes reveals His secrets.
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
At night, our soul is free from worldly vanity, and therefore the spiritual world can freely act upon it, and it can freely accept its impressions.
Mercy is to love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, to those who assault you, to those who persecute you, to protect the persecuted, and so on.
Thought in God corresponds to the Father, words to the Son, and deeds to the Holy Spirit, who completes everything.
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