“It is important to get up immediately after a fall and to keep on walking towards God.”
Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica
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“I have consciousness of my sinfullness, but I live with hope. It is bad to despair, because someone who despairs becomes embittered and loses his willingness and strength. Someone who has hope, on the contrary, moves forward.”
Saint Porphyrios of Kavsokalyvia
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“When we fall, we are empty and have no one that is close to us but our own self.”
Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica
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“Pay attention carefully. After the sin comes the shame; courage follows repentance. Did you pay attention to what I said? Satan upsets the order; he gives the courage to sin and the shame to repentance.”
Saint John Chrysostom
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“It’s so important that we don’t let our falls set us back but rather we need to keep persisting in repentance, because patience and persistence shows humility, giving up is pride.”
Fr Demosthenes Nicolaou
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“A brother said to Abba Poemen, ‘If I fall into a shameful sin, my conscience devours and accuses me saying: ‘Why have you fallen?” The old man said to him, ‘At the moment when a man goes astray, if he says, ‘I have sinned’, immediately the sin ceases.'”
Abba Poemen the Great
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“Let no one mourn that he has fallen again and again; for forgiveness has risen from the grave.”
Saint John Chrysostom
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“Praxis is not to try out and then retreat, but to enter the battle, duel, defeat, and be defeated, win and lose, fall and rise, crush the gates everywhere, and to expect struggles and fights until one’s last breath.”
Saint Joseph the Hesychast
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“Every day I say to myself, today I will begin.”
Saint Anthony the Great
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“Do not despair when you fall into temptations and afflicitions. Do not think that God has abandoned us because of our sins… If we are not fought against how will we show that we are soldiers of Christ? A soldier might get wounded in the battle, but this does not mean that he has been defeated. Even if we are defeated, once again we shall rise and fight.”
Elder Ephraim of Arizona
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“So every time you fall, get up again and at once seek forgiveness. Don’t hide sorrow in your heart, because sorrow and despondency are the joy of the evil one…”
Saint Joseph the Hesychast
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