We are frightened when we see the sins that exist in the world, this continual persuasion of mass-media and schools on young people that there is no such thing as sin, that everything is allowed. This is one of the devil’s tricks, who wants to persuade us of his inexistence. This is his greatest trickery: everything in this world!

Nothing can relieve man’s search for the best, his thirst of living water. As that woman that wished to never be thirsty again so she didn’t have to go to the well, we want to take a sip from the water of Christianity and never be thirsty again, to never have to go to the well again and to know the truth in Jesus Christ. This people is ripened. God has sowed in this people the seed of faith and it became fruitful, although its ear can bear only thirty or sixty grains. But our duty is to pray for the reapers of faith, that pick with love and faith.

(Translation from Părintele Cheorghe Calciu, Cuvinte vii, ediţie îngrijită la Mănăstirea Diaconeşti, Editura Bonifaciu, 2009)