"Love God with all your soul and heart, and keep His commandments."

 

In our evil days, the whole world is in danger of perishing because of the many sins of men, who, although they see the dangers (wars, plagues, famines, earthquakes, floods, etc.), not only do not repent and do not correct themselves, but become worse. They become unbelieving, impious, blasphemous, proud, envious, liars, unjust, thieves, rapacious, slanderers, lewd, licentious, savage, ungrateful, unholy, irreconcilable, traitors, reckless, hypocrites, deceitful, crafty, murderers, evildoers.

Be on guard, my children, against the men of this evil, crooked, perverted, and corrupt generation.

Love God with all your soul and heart, and keep His commandments.

- Elder Philotheos Zervakos (+1980)

Source: Σοφές Πατρικές διδαχές καί σωτήριες ἀλήθειες τοῦ Ὁσίου γέροντος Φιλοθέου Ζερβάκου [Wise Patristic Teachings and Saving Truths of the Venerable Elder Philotheos Zervakos], published by Orthodox Kypseli, 2012.