Hieroschemamonk Iulian (Lazăr)
If you give a child something, it enters his mind and spins around in there—just like that. Let prayer spin around in there rather than something else.
Veronika Buzinkina
We not only helped, but we benefited a lot from it ourselves. Overall, any remembrance of life as a fleeting moment sobers up our soul.
Archpriest Vladimir Vigilyansky, Olesya Nikolaeva
Terrorists in their doctrinal worldview statements assured that they fought exclusively with exploiters, but in fact they did not disdain the murders of people from the poorest strata of society—peasants or workers, if they considered themselves monarchists and patriots of Russia.
Hieromonk Seraphim (Panich)
The Kazan Icon of the Mother of God is one of the greatest holy shrines in Russia, the guardian of the Russian people. The events that determined the major course of Russian history are connected with it.
Constantine Tsertsvadze
I recalled Elder Gabriel entering the ward and inviting St. Luke to follow him, with words full of his unique humor:” Your Eminence, here is Constantine, who speaks both Georgian and Russian well. Will you help him? He prays to you in Russian, and to me in Georgian. He likes to show off!”
