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Saint Ignatius (Dmitry Alexandrovich Brianchaninov, Дмитрий Александрович Брянчанинов, 1807–1867) was a bishop and theologian of the Russian Orthodox Church.
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“Conversation and acquaintance with a saint will impart sanctity.”
“Being offended at the sins of others is a serious spiritual disease.”
“Consider how wise and careful you must be. Do not gamble with your eternal fate.”
“The only mind that is healthy is the one that wholly and completely follows the teaching of Christ.”
“Our helmsman, the mind, sometimes loses his way and takes our whole life along with him down the wrong path.”
“Do you want to learn to love God? Separate yourself from any word, deed, thought and feeling forbidden by the Gospels.”
“The spiritual harvest requires a heart that is harrowed by repentance, softened by compunction, and irrigated by tears.”
“Our heart distracts us when it inclines to the fulfillment of its own fallen desires, when it leaves the path of God's will.”
“Let us not foolishly waste our abilities of soul and body; let us not bring them as a sacrifice to the vain and fading world.”
“If you think that you love God, but in your heart lives an unpleasant disposition toward even one person, you are grievously self-deluded.”
“The fall has become so assimilated to the essence of all mankind that rejection of the fall has become tantamount to rejection of our very life.”
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It is harder to fool the conscience than the mind.
The conscience is capable of fighting long and hard against the mind deluded by its love of sin.
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“The Lord came to the earth to save sinners, and so he expects an inevitable admission of sinfulness from every person; judging one's neighbor is a rejection of this acknowledgement.”
“Do not waste time trying to determine who is right and who is wrong, you or your neighbor. Instead, try to accuse yourself and preserve peace with your neighbor through your humility.”
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Ignatius Brianchaninov on Church Fathers 4 quotes
“Conversation and acquaintance with a saint will impart sanctity.”
Ignatius Brianchaninov on Gospel 3 quotes
“Try to integrate the Gospel into your mind and heart so that your mind will in a manner of speaking, swim in it, live in it. Then your every action will truly become evangelical.”
Ignatius Brianchaninov on Wealth 2 quotes
“Earthly wealth does not belong to us, as those who have never thought about this erroneously believe. Otherwise, it always and forever would remain in our possession. But it changes hands constantly, thereby proving that it is given only for us to watch over temporarily.”
Ignatius Brianchaninov on Distraction
“All the saints assiduously avoided distraction. Constantly, or at the very least as often as possible, they concentrated their thoughts within themselves, paying attention to every movement of the mind and heart, directing these according to the commands of the Gospels.”
Ignatius Brianchaninov on Hedonism
“Indulging sinful and vain desires always leads to obsession with them, and after the obsession comes slavery, which is death to everything spiritual. Those who allowed themselves to follow their desires and carnal mind became obsessed with them, enslaved by them, forgot God and eternity, and waster their earthly lives pointlessly, dying an eternal death.”
Ignatius Brianchaninov on Man
“Earthly wealth does not belong to us, as those who have never thought about this erroneously believe. Otherwise, it always and forever would remain in our possession. But it changes hands constantly, thereby proving that it is given only for us to watch over temporarily. ... Wealth belongs to God; man is only the temporary caretaker. A faithful caretaker will follow exactly the wishes of the one who has entrusted the wealth to him. And we, temporarily ruling over the wealth given to us, must rule over it according to the will of God. Let us not use it as a means of indulging our desires and passions, as a resource for eternal perdition. Let us use it for the good of mankind, which lives in need and suffering. ... Do not forget that you are the image and likeness of God, that you are obliged to present this image in purity and holiness to God himself. Woe to you if God will not recognize His image, will not find in it any similarity with Himself! He will utter the dreadful words: "I do not know you."”
Ignatius Brianchaninov on Meaning of life
“Earthly wealth does not belong to us, as those who have never thought about this erroneously believe. Otherwise, it always and forever would remain in our possession. But it changes hands constantly, thereby proving that it is given only for us to watch over temporarily. ... Wealth belongs to God; man is only the temporary caretaker. A faithful caretaker will follow exactly the wishes of the one who has entrusted the wealth to him. And we, temporarily ruling over the wealth given to us, must rule over it according to the will of God. Let us not use it as a means of indulging our desires and passions, as a resource for eternal perdition. Let us use it for the good of mankind, which lives in need and suffering. ... Do not forget that you are the image and likeness of God, that you are obliged to present this image in purity and holiness to God himself. Woe to you if God will not recognize His image, will not find in it any similarity with Himself! He will utter the dreadful words: "I do not know you."”
About Ignatius Brianchaninov
Saint Ignatius (Dmitry Alexandrovich Brianchaninov, Дмитрий Александрович Брянчанинов, 1807–1867) was a bishop and theologian of the Russian Orthodox Church.