Wounded by Love Quotes

“Whoever wants to become a Christian must first become a poet. That's what it is! You must suffer. You must love and suffer--suffer for the one you love. Love makes effort for the loved one. She runs all through the night; she stays awake; she stains her feet with blood in order to meet her beloved. She makes sacrifices and disregards all impediments, threats, and difficulties for the sake of the loved one. Love towards Christ is something even higher, infinitely higher.

And when we say 'love', we don't mean the virtues that we will acquire, but the heart that is pervaded by love towards Christ and others. We need to turn everything in this direction. Do we see a mother with her child in her arms and bending to give the child a kiss, her heart overflowing with emotion? Do we notice how her face lights up as she holds her little angel? These things do not escape a person with love of God. He sees them and is impressed by them and he says, 'If only I had those emotions towards my God, towards my Holy Lady and our saints!' Look, that's how we must love Christ our God. You desire it, you want it, and with the grace of God you acquire it.”
― Elder Porphyrios, Wounded by Love

“You won't become saints by hounding after evil. Ignore evil. Look towards Christ and He will save you. (p. 135)”
― Elder Porphyrios, Wounded by Love

“The soul of the Christian needs to be refined and sensitive, to have sensibility and wings, to be constantly in flight and to live in dreams, to fly through infinity, among the stars, amidst the greatness of God, amid silence. Whoever wants to become a Christian must first become a poet. (p. 107)”
― Elder Porphyrios, Wounded by Love

“With humility you attract the grace of God. You surrender yourself to the love of God, to worship and to prayer. But even if you do all in the world, you achieve nothing if you haven't acquired humility. (p. 178)”
― Elder Porphyrios, Wounded by Love

“[All things] are little loves through which we attain to the great Love that is Christ. Flowers, for example, have their own grace: they teach us of the love of God. They scatter their fragrance and their beauty on sinners and on the righteous. (p. 218)”
― Elder Porphyrios, Wounded by Love

“What is not expressed generally has greater power than words. (p. 214)”
― Elder Porphyrios, Wounded by Love