If soul is the most valuable asset of our being, our most important concern should be to take care of the soul and of its salvation. Soul must be the centre of gravity for all our concerns and endeavours. Of course that it is natural to take care of the body as well: food, clothing, shelter etc.

The soul hungers and thirsts as the deer for the water spring, for truth, good and for the beautiful, as a plant for the light and heat of the sun. It cannot grow or develop without the beneficent rays of the sun and the love of people. Soul can only drink from the pure water of the tears shed out of prayer and repentance, it can only feel good in the fresh air of good deeds and of the divine grace that can be found only in Church.

In order to clean itself, the soul has the baptismal water and repentance, the divine meal of the Holy Communion as food and force, it has in this life Church and its holy ministers, and as payment for its toils on earth, God has prepared in the other life the happiness of Heaven.

(Translated from Arhimandrit Sofian Boghiu, Smerenia şi dragostea ‒ însuşirile trăirii ortodoxe, Fundația Tradiția Românească, Bucureşti, 2002, p. 12)