Teachings of Pious Paissios

`Father, worries estrange us of God ?` `Listen one thing from me: when a child is playing and he…

`Abba, sometimes I cannot feel any joy and then I think that maybe the joy is not for…

One night they brought us a new convict. They gave him the upper bunk bed from the opposite…

According to my calculations two months had passed. On the following day I don’t know why I was…

Today the main thing is not to shape ourselves after this worldly spirit. It is martyrdom. We should…

I was saying to myself that these people who were forbidden to believe in God believed and I…

`Father, the secular people say they feel an emptiness in their soul, even if they have all the…

The soul that marvels at the beauties of the material world shows that inside it lives the vain…

`Father, many people tell us: Here you’re living like in heaven.` `Pray not to lose the other heaven.…

Double unhappiness awaits all those who don’t refrain their hearts from material desires which are not absolutely necessary…