171. When you see shortcomings and passions in your neighbor, pray for him; pray for everyone, even your enemy. If you see a proud and obstinate brother speaking proudly to you or to others, pray for him, so that God will enlighten his mind and warm his heart with the fire of His grace, say: Lord, teach Your servant, who has fallen into the pride of the devil, meekness and humility and remove from his heart the darkness and burden of satanic pride! - If you see an evil one, pray: Lord, do good to this servant of Yours by Your grace! - If he is money-loving and greedy, say: Our treasure is incorruptible and our wealth is inexhaustible! Grant to this Thy servant, created in Thy image and likeness, to know the flattery of wealth, and how all earthly things are vanity, shadow and sleep. The days of every man are like grass, or like a web, and like You alone are our wealth, peace and joy!
- When you see an envious person, pray: Lord, enlighten the mind and heart of this Thy servant to the knowledge of Thy great, countless and unsearchable gifts, which they have received from Thy innumerable bounties, for in the blindness of their passion they have forgotten Thy rich gifts, and are impoverished to be imputed to themselves, rich in Thy blessings, and for this reason deceiving the good. Thy servants, in the image, oh, most unspeakable Goodness, thou hast inflicted mercy on everyone, in every way against his power and according to the intention of Thy will. Take away, O all-merciful Master, the veil of the devil from the sight of the heart of Thy servant and grant him heartfelt contrition and tears of repentance and gratitude, so that the enemy does not rejoice over him, captured alive from him into his will, and may he not tear him away from Thy hand. When you see a drunken person, say with your heart: Lord, look mercifully on Your servant, seduced by the flattery of the belly and carnal joy, grant him to know the sweetness of abstinence and fasting and the fruits of the spirit that flow from it.
- When you see someone who is passionate about food and places his bliss in them, say: Lord, our sweetest food, which never perishes, but abides in the eternal belly! cleanse this Thy servant from the filth of gluttony, all flesh created and alien to Thy Spirit, and grant him to know the sweetness of Thy life-giving spiritual meat, which is Thy Flesh and Blood and Thy holy, living and effective word. - In this way, or in a similar way, pray for all those who sin and do not dare to despise anyone for his sin or take revenge on him, for this would only increase the ulcers of those who sin - correct with advice, threats and punishments that would serve as a means to stop or keep evil within the boundaries of moderation.
241. ...Glory to Thy omnipotence and goodness, Lord!
296. The new man (renewed) finds pleasure in obedience, but the old man wants to resist and disobey. So, Lord, Thy will be done! I accept as an expression of Your will everything that the authorities placed over me require of me, everything that others do to me (patience), everything that happens to me, for nothing happens without You. You are in everything, through everyone and everything.
314. ...Christ the King! Grant me apostolic zeal and the fire of the Holy Spirit in my heart, so that I may always boldly rebel against the impudent vice that has especially infected many, and may I not spare anyone for the sake of their salvation and the rest of Your people, so that they are not tempted, seeing the spread of vice, and do not fall themselves. If he seduces one from these little ones who believe in Me, let him not eat, and let the millstone of the village fall upon his neck, and drown in the abyss of the sea. For the Son of Man came to seek and save the lost (Matt. 18:6, 11).
318. My God! What terrible Mysteries You perform! What unspoken Mysteries You have made me a spectator and participant. Glory to Thee, my Creator! Glory to Thee, Creator of the Body and Blood of Christ!
335. ...Lord! Send zealous workers to Thy garden, not seeking their own (1 Cor. 13:5), but seeking Thy Christ. Grant them prophetic zeal, apostolic strength and wisdom, so that they tirelessly cultivate the fields of human hearts day and night.
338. ...Our Father, Who art in heaven! Hallowed be Thy name - in us all! May Your Kingdom come as in the beginning before the Fall; may Your good and perfect will be done, as in heaven - forever, so on earth, and may self-will not reign! Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, and so on.
339. ...Glory to Your goodness! Glory to Your bounties! Glory to Your wisdom! Glory to Your power!
424. Diligent, tearful prayer not only cleanses sins, but also heals bodily infirmities and illnesses and renews a person’s entire being and, so to speak, regenerates (I speak from experience). – Oh, what an invaluable gift – prayer! Glory to Thee, Father of bounties and God of all joy! Glory to You, Son of God, only begotten, who interceded for us endless forgiveness of our sins! Glory to Thee, All-Holy Soul, interceding for us with groanings that cannot be uttered (Rom. 8:26), giving fiery prayer with sighs and tears, warming a cold soul, giving tenderness and sorrow for sins, cleansing, sanctifying, pacifying, strengthening and renewing us! Glory to Thee, Holy Trinity, Beginningless, Life-Giving, forever blessed from all intelligent creatures!
430. Lord! how I will praise You, how I will glorify You for Your powers, for the miracles of healing from Your Holy Mysteries, revealed to me and to many of Your people, to whom I, unworthy, taught after the sacrament of repentance these holy, heavenly, life-giving Mysteries of Yours! Here they confess before me Your power, Your goodness, they say publicly that You stretched out Your miraculous hand on them and raised them from their sick bed, from their death bed, when no one expected that they would live - and after communion of Your Body and Blood, O Life-Giver, they soon came to life, were healed, and at the same hour and day they felt the life-giving Hand on them Yours. But I, Lord, an eyewitness of Your works, have not yet glorified You publicly, to confirm the faith of Your people, and I do not know how and when to glorify You, for every day I am busy with some kind of deeds. You yourself create a name for yourself, Lord, just as you created it; You yourself glorify Your name, Your Mysteries.
437. Your name is Almighty, Lord, as you hold not just heaven and earth, but the entire human race, the life of every person, the hearts of everyone in Your hand, and not only every person, but also every animal, every bird, fish, insect, worm, reptile and ciliate invisible to the eye. Glory to Your infinite sovereignty, Lord! Glory to Your all-good, wise and all-powerful providence, Lord of heaven and earth! Almighty Master! You hold all hell with Satan and his countless hordes in Your hand, and only by Your permission, for our admonition and punishment, Satan and his angels plot intrigues over us. Let us pray to You, our Savior, we will unfeignedly repent before You of our sins - and You, having brought us to understanding, will take away our enemies from us, saying: It is sufficient for you to act evilly against My servants, they again belong to Me. So, Lord, when Your incessant blessings and mercies toward us do not enlighten us, what remains to be done?
It remains with punishments, bitterness, cramped conditions, fire, and our own malice to admonish us - we, the voluptuous, who love space, carnal coolness, vainness, the lazy, the careless, the evil.
444. If it were not for Your salvation, Lord, if it were not for Your goodness, then we would have burned in our own cave of passions, Satan would have completely corrupted us, tormented us - and we would not have seen any joy in life. If the Lord were not in us, no one would be able to overcome us with the enemy’s battle: those who overcome are lifted up from here (Ant., ch. 6). But now Thy mercy, Thy grace, which Thou hast acquired for us through Thy suffering, Thy blood, and Thy death for us, comforts us. Glory to Thee for this, O Lover of Mankind! But what will happen to those Christians who do not want to know You, Your commandments, Your teaching? Woe to them.