Words from the Saints -- November 20, 2025
Gerald Largent
“Wherever God is — there is peace. And the opposite is self-evident: where there is envy, enmity, impatience, self-love — there is the devil. Wherever the devil is — there, everything is ruinous, proud and hostile.” --St Anatoly of Optina
“The money you keep locked away is the money of the poor. The acts of charity you do not perform are the injustices you commit.” --St Basil the Great
“All our attention must be centered on the parable of the Prodigal Son.... He knows how the burden of sin on the soul and body...impels us...to return, and how it actually does turn many again to God, to a virtuous life.” --St John of Kronstadt
“Until a person achieves humility, he will receive no reward for his works.... And... ‘A humble person never falls. Being already lower than any, where can he fall?’ – vanity is a great humiliation, but humility is a great exalting, honor and dignity.” --St Isaac the Syrian
“In the mercy of God, the little thing done with humility will enable us to be found in the same place as the saints who have labored much and been true servants of God.” --St Dorotheus of Gaza