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Sophrony , known also as Elder Sophrony or Father Sophrony was an archimandrite and one of the noted ascetic Christian monks of the twentieth century. He is best known as the disciple and biographer of Silouan the Athonite and compiler of Silouan's works, and as the founder of the Patriarchal Stavropegic Monastery of St. John the Baptist in Tolleshunt Knights, Maldon, Essex, England.He was canonised by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople on 27 November 2019. Wikipedia  

✵ 22. September 1896 – 11. July 1993
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“Stand on the edge of the abyss and when you feel that it is beyond your strength, break off and have a cup of tea.”

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In conversation with Archimandrite Ephraim of Vatopedi, 20 September 1992
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Source: [PEMPTOUSIA: A Conversation with Elder Sophrony, 12 July 2015, https://pemptousia.com/2015/07/a-conversation-with-the-elder-sophrony/, 11 July 2021]

“If one rejects the Orthodox creed and the eastern ascetic experience of life in Christ, which has been acquired throughout the centuries, then Orthodox culture would be left with nothing but the Greek minor [key] and Russian tetraphony.”

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Letter to D. Balfour.
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“There are three things I cannot take in: nondogmatic faith, nonecclesiological Christianity and nonascetic Christianity. These three - the church, dogma, and asceticism - constitute one single life for me.”

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Letter to D. Balfour, August 21, 1945.
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“No sin is unforgivable except the sin that is not repented of.”

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Source: Saint Silouan the Athonite (1991), p. 83

“Most people neither hear nor understand God speaking in their hearts: they listen to the urging of passion, which inhabits the soul and with its clamour drowns the still small voice of God.”

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Source: Saint Silouan the Athonite (1991), p. 79

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