St. Porphyrios the Kapsokalyvite: On The Church, angels and mankind

 The Church is without beginning, without end and eternal, just as the Triune God, her founder, is without beginning, without end, and eternal. She is uncreated just as God is uncreated. She existed before the ages, before the angels, before the creation of the world - "before the foundation of the world" (Eph 1:4) as the Apostle Paul says. She is a divine institution and in her "dwells the whole fullness of divinity" (Col 2:9). She is an expression of the richly varied wisdom of God. She is the mystery of mysteries. She was concealed and was revealed "in the last of times" (1 Pet 1:20). The Church remains unshaken because she is rooted in the love and wise providence of God.
 The three persons of the Holy Trinity constitute the eternal Church. The angels and human beings existed in the thought and love of the Triune God from the beginning. We human beings were not born now, we existed before the ages in God's omniscience.
+St. Porphyrios the Kapsokalyvite, in Wounded By Love: The Life and Wisdom of Elder Porphyrios, Part 2: The Wisdom of Elder Porphyrios, On The Church

St. Porphyrios the Kapsokalyvite: Love Christ with all the strength of your heart

If you love Christ with all the strength of your heart, everything will be easy for you. Even obedience and humility will be easy. Then your love for all the brothers will be love unforced and spontaneous. It is the same love that Christ has because it will not be you who loves but Christ Himself Who now possesses your heart.
+Porphyrios (Bairaktaris) the Kapsokalyvite, from The Divine Flame Elder Porphyrios Lit in My Heart, Treasures from our subsequent conversations, by Monk Agapios

St. Porphyrios the Kapsokalyvite: Do not say your brother is obstinate...

You should not say that your brother is obstinate, that he is jealous or that he gets angry, etc. Don't say that I can't get along with him. I can't ever do things with him. This is not the way to act. This is not Orthodox. It is not Christian. This is not at all living in the love of God. This is the way to separate yourself from the Grace of God, because you separate Him from your brothers.
On the contrary, you will overlook their weaknesses and without imitating them, you will become one with them in cooperation. You will accept whatever they want and the way they want it. Do they want it this way? So be it. Do they want it another way? May it be the other way. In this way, the wall that separate us from our brothers are destroyed. It is in this way that we are united to Christ.
The more you are daily associated with your brothers, the more you mystically enter into the Love of Christ. "Stand in freedom" (cf. Galatians 5:1) says St. Paul.
+St. Porphyrios the Kapsokalyvite, from The Divine Flame Elder Porphyrios Lit in My Heart, After My Admission into the Monastery