Studying the texts of the Venerable Sophronius, we found it appropriate to select certain passages that especially caught our attention. Of course, every speech of his, which he often repeats in his sermons, is noteworthy, as the wise theologian and hierarch Most Reverend John of Perga had said about the writings of the Venerable Silouan: that every word of the Venerable, despite its apparent simplicity, can be the subject of a doctoral dissertation.

We decided to comment on them for the edification of other brothers in Christ.