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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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The soul of the first person is from God, and from Him are all the souls of subsequent people; all are the breath of His Divine Spirit.
It has been calculated astronomically that the distance from the Earth to the Sun is one hundred and fifty million versts (approximately 160 million km).
The world is a mirror of God’s goodness, reason, wisdom, and power.
The Lord is the perfect Possessor and Master of all creation.
The rays from our Sun reach the Earth in eight minutes.
The soul is a house, passions are fire.
Respect yourself as the image of God.
Reason is the servant of the heart.
Theater and church are opposites. The former is a temple of the world, and the latter is a temple of God; the former is a shrine of the devil, and the latter is a temple of the Lord.
Humility is a great virtue, the mother of all virtues, the mother of all blessings.
Gluttony is the seed of decay and destruction of the soul.
The fiery catastrophe of the Earth expected at the end of the world could occur from the collision of the Earth with one of the wandering fragments or comets.
Faith is the key to God's treasury.
A state or any society is a body.
The youth of the 19th century, in its second half, is characterized by self-worship, self-legislation (autonomy), materialism in life, and spiritual skepticism (unbelief).
The soul of animals, upon separation from the body, evaporates like vapor, for it is not fastened with the higher, powerful cement of the spirit, which animals do not have.
Democracy is in hell, and in heaven, it is the Kingdom.
Praying without sincere feeling is hypocrisy.
Humility is the foundation of all virtues.
The world is in a state of slumber, a sinful sleep. God awakens it with wars, plagues, fires, destructive storms, earthquakes, floods, and crop failures.
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