5/12/2023
Bishop Joseph (Korolev)
Our elders could combine unceasing prayer and work. True, it’s not total stillness—we won’t see it at the Optina Monastery. But there was the path of cenobitic monasticism, there was monastic life in the skete and there was eremitic life.
The elders of Optina were skilled spiritual physicians who penetrated into the very depths of the human soul.
Alexander Dmitriev
No one knows exactly what love is. And love is cultivated in everyone. You begin to take part in the life of your soulmate, you begin to understand him or her.
Priest Michael Dochia
The time will come when all the weight of waiting will be rewarded in full. Happiness must be waited for and obtained by suffering, passing the test of uncertainty.
