From the book: "People of God - St. Gabriel (Urgebadze)"

One day Elder Gabriel went to Tbilisi for shopping. He had only one hundred rubles. At the stop, two beekeepers complained that they could not get a hundred rubles to cure the bees. Father Gabriel, without hesitation for a moment, gave them his money and came back. The next day, two famous actors came to him and donated a thousand rubles. The elder said: "For what is given for a good deed, God gives a hundred times more."

Nun Paraskeva (Rostiashvili) said: “Once I was standing at the cell of the elder in the courtyard of the monastery. Pilgrims approached me and asked for water. I was too lazy to go for water, and I sent them to the refectory. : "How come you didn't do a good deed? Go quickly, give people water so that no one gets ahead of you. And remember that even one glass of water given to your neighbor will not be lost before God."

The Church is the only sure path that leads to eternity. Walk this path steadfastly, without deviating from it at all. In this way, you will surely attain the Kingdom of Heaven. - St. John Kronstadt

 

Everything bad in a person is accidental. You young people should not express disgust toward those who drink excessively, fight, or use profanity, because the image of God is preserved within them as well—even though they probably aren’t aware of it. The enemy defiles them and covers them with filth, just as an icon becomes covered with dust; but if it falls into good hands, it will be cleaned, and it will begin to shine. Of course, it is difficult to see the image of God in those who treat you badly and insult you—those whose faces bear the likeness of a beast rather than a human being—but they deserve even greater pity, because their souls are distorted, perhaps even beyond repair, and condemned to eternal torment and torture. How difficult it is to love your enemy. How difficult it is to devote your entire life to learning how to love those who insult you… But you must know that through such love, you become like Christ.” St. Gabriel (Urgebadze)

First God heals, then the doctor, but he who does not thank the doctor does not thank God. The hard worker deserves a reward. The mind and hands of a doctor perform deeds pleasing to God. St. Gabriel (Urgebadze)

 

The monk departs far from the world not because he hates it, but because he loves it. In this way he will, through his prayer, help the world more in those matters that are, being humanly impossible, only possible by God's intervention. - St. Paisios the Athonite

 

St. Paisios the Athonite

 

If a person coms to recognize the talents that God has bestowed on him, and learns to develop and use them, then he will not be envious and he will live as though he were in Paradise. Many people do not acknowledge their own gifts; they only see the abilities of others and become envious. They see themselves as having been dealt a bad hand and thus torment themselves and make their life miserable. - St. Paisios the Athonite

When the celebrant takes out a particle of the prosphora for a brother who is living, "because it is placed near the eucharistic Bread, when that becomes the Body of Christ in the course of the Liturgy, the particle too is immediately sanctified. And when it is placed in the Chalice, it is united with the holy Blood. That is why it transmits divine grace to the soul of the one for whom it is offered. So a spiritual communion takes place between that person and Christ. If the person commemorated is among the godly, or those who have sinned but then repented, that person receives the communion of the Holy Spirit invisibly in his soul. - St. Symeon of Thessaloniki