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Sophrony Quotes

1896–1993 Russia

Saint Sophrony (23 September 1896 – 11 July 1993) was an archimandrite and one of the noted ascetic Christian monks of the twentieth century.

Russia
Theologians

Also known as: Saint Sophrony

Random Sophrony quote

5 quotes

No sin is unforgivable except the sin that is not repented of.

Saint Silouan the Athonite (1991)

Stand on the edge of the abyss and when you feel that it is beyond your strength, break off and have a cup of tea."

Most people neither hear nor understand God speaking in their hearts: they listen to the urging of passion, which inhabits the soul and with its clamour drowns the still small voice of God.

Saint Silouan the Athonite (1991)

"If one rejects the Orthodox creed and the eastern ascetic experience of life in Christ, which has been acquired throughout the centuries, then Orthodox culture would be left with nothing but the Greek minor [key] and Russian tetraphony."

"There are three things I cannot take in: nondogmatic faith, nonecclesiological Christianity and nonascetic Christianity. These three - the church, dogma, and asceticism - constitute one single life for me."

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Sophrony (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.