815. Lord! I am a miracle of Your goodness, wisdom, omnipotence, since I was brought by You from non-existence into being, since I am preserved by You hitherto in existence, since I have, by the goodness, generosity and love of Thy only begotten Son, to inherit eternal life, if I remain faithful to You, since by the terrible sacred act of sacrificing Myself as a sacrifice by Your Son, I restored from a terrible fall, redeemed from eternal destruction. I praise Your goodness, Your infinite power, Your wisdom! But perform miracles of Your goodness, omnipotence and wisdom over me, the accursed one, and with their own destinies, save me, Your unworthy servant, and bring me into Your eternal Kingdom, making me worthy of an ageless life, an unevening day.
816. ...Lord! draw my heart to You by Your Holy Spirit. God! turn my heart away from earthly vanities. God! I can’t do anything without You.
865. Lord! I confess before You that life and health and strength of spiritual and physical strength are not in the countryside, not in the forest, but in Your church, especially in the liturgy and in Your life-giving Mysteries! Oh, the greatest bliss of the Holy Mysteries! Oh, life-giving Holy Mysteries! Oh, unspoken love, Divine Mysteries! Oh, the wonderful and unceasing thought of the Lord God about our salvation and deification, the Divine Mysteries! Oh, transfiguration of eternal life, Divine Mysteries!
866. My Lady, Most Holy Theotokos! I prayed to you before the liturgy, and ask me the grace to perform it with great power, for the glory of God, for the salvation of the world and my own! You arranged everything for the good. Thank you, all-merciful Helper, Quick to Hear, unshameful hope!
868. Lord, I thank You with all my heart for the gracious inspirations of Your Holy Spirit during public and domestic Divine services, for the cleansing of sins, for peace, tenderness and tears, for fatherly consolation, for boldness, for strength.
877. ...Wonderful are Your works, O Lord! You are marvelous, sitting on the throne of Your glory in Christian churches. Lord, most righteous Judge and most merciful Savior and Almighty! Glory to Your invincible goodness, King of ages!
883. Do not rush to food and drink, but hurry to the work of God quickly and, while doing God’s work, do not think about food and drink. Remember firmly who you are standing before, with whom you are talking. Whom do you sing; be entirely in God, belong entirely to Him alone, pray with all your heart, sing with all your heart, serve for your neighbors as you would for yourself, cordially, wholeheartedly, without double hearts and thoughts. God! help: without You I can do nothing (John 15:5).
900. To the glory of the most holy name of the Lord Jesus Christ and the Lady Theotokos. – I felt a thousand times in my heart that after communion of the Holy Mysteries or after fervent prayer at home, ordinary or on the occasion of some sin, passion and sorrow and oppression, the Lord, through the prayers of the Lady, or the Lady Herself, through the goodness of the Lord, gave me, as it were, a new nature of the spirit, pure, kind, majestic, bright, wise, gracious instead of unclean, dull and lethargic, cowardly, gloomy, stupid, evil. I have undergone many wonderful, great changes, to the surprise of myself and often of others. Glory to Your power, Lord! Glory to Your goodness, Lord! Glory to Your mercies, O Lord, which You have shown to me, a sinner!
903. Christian! remember and always carry in your thoughts and in your heart the great words of the Lord’s Prayer: Our Father, who art in heaven (remember, who is our Father? - God is our Father, our Love; who are we? We are His children, and among ourselves brothers; in what kind of love should the children of such a Father live among themselves? If they were children of Abraham, they would quickly do the works of Abraham (John 8:39); what kind of deeds should they do? us?)! Hallowed be Thy name, Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done. Give us our daily bread today (our bread (everything is common), and not your own; self-love must be expelled from the hearts of the children of God: we are one), and forgive us our debts (if you want and love God to forgive you your sins, consider it commonplace to forgive the sins of people who sin against you, knowing that love is long-suffering and merciful); and do not lead us into temptation (and do not give in to temptation yourself; do not let your feet fall into confusion, keep you below. The Lord is your protection on your right hand (Ps. 121:3, 5)), but deliver us from the evil one (do not give yourself over to him willingly, and the Lord will not give you over to him).
For Yours is the Kingdom (recognize the one King God and work for Him alone) and strength (trust in His almighty power) and glory (jealous for His glory with all your might and throughout your life) forever (He is the eternal King, and the kingdom of Satan will soon pass away as a predatory, false one). Amen. All this is true. Remember this prayer most of all and read it in your mind more often and think about it, what every word, expression and petition means in it.
905. Save us, Thy race, O Lady! Save us, Your half-blooded ones! Save us, Mother of the Belly and Mother of us all, although we are unworthy to call You our Mother! Cleanse, sanctify, strengthen and save us through Your prayers!
916. Good Lady! Reveal and manifest Your dominion over me and Your people, God-fearing and well-behaved, by delivering us, through our prayer, from nasty, evil and blasphemous thoughts, from all sins and passions and from all the snares of demons, like the good Mother of God.
943. When depicting the sign of the cross, believe and constantly remember that your sins are nailed to the cross. When you fall into sin, immediately condemn yourself sincerely and make the sign of the cross on yourself, saying: Lord! You nailed our sins to the cross, nail my real sin to Thy cross and have mercy on me according to Thy great mercy (Ps. 50:3), and your sin will be cleansed. Amen.
959. When in your eyes people fall into various sins against you, against the Lord, against your neighbors and against yourself, do not be angry with them, for even without you there is a lot of evil in the world, but pity them from the heart and forgive them when they offend you, saying to yourself: Lord! let them go, for they are confused by sin, they do not know what they are doing (Luke 23:34).
961. Lord! always give me a meek heart, a clear, direct, meek gaze. Wake up! - Glory, Lord, to the change made in me by Your right hand, I thank You, for You have taken away from me the thorns that burn my passions and my oppression, and my shame, and my weakness, and have granted me peace, silence, freedom, strength, boldness. Confirm what you have done in me. Glory to the power of faith, the power of prayer: everything I ask of You in prayer as a believer, I receive according to Your word (Mark 11:24). I thank You, Lord, for you have raised me from the dead many times over (2 Cor. 1:9), and destroyed the mortal, sinful kingdom in me.
982. Great is Thy love, O Lord: Thou hast exhausted Thyself entirely for the sake of love for me. I look at the cross and marvel at Your love for me and for the world, for the cross is a clear imprint of Your love for us. Greater love can no one have, but whoever lays down his life for his friend (John 15:13). Your life-giving Mysteries, Lord, serve as an ever-present loud proof of Your love for us sinners, for this divine Body of Yours was broken for me, for all of us; this Blood was shed for me, for all of us, Lord! I glorify the miracles of Your Holy Mysteries over Your faithful, to whom I taught them; I glorify the countless healings that I have witnessed; I glorify their all-saving action in me; I glorify Your mercy towards me, which is shown to me in them and through them, Your life-giving power, which acts in them. God! for Your great love for me, grant me to love You with all my heart, and my neighbor as myself, to love my enemies, not only those who love me.
983. Lord! teach and strengthen in mutual love by Your Holy Spirit; Tame the gusts of passions that stir the heavenly, evangelical love, and make our hearts dead for earthly pleasures. Grant me, Lord, to always prefer Thy grace, Thy peace, Thy truth and holiness to all earthly blessings, and to always abide in it, all the days of my life, until my last breath!