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Sweets, money—are worse than ordinary dust, sweepings, because they clutter the soul, while ordinary sweepings only clutter the body, clothing, or a room.

— John of Kronstadt

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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.

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