This collection is made in order to give the reader the opportunity to touch the spiritual experience of the Christian East. The book is assembled, gives more than three hundred and fifty Orthodox saints from Palestine, Syria, Egypt, Greece, Russia, Serbia, Montenegro, Georgia. After the first thousand years after Christ's birth the Roman Church entered into the family of Orthodox Churches, in our proceedings can be read and sayings of the ancient Saints who lived on the territory of modern Italy, England, France, Tunisia - all this makes the common spiritual heritage of the Orthodox Church. The most ancient expressions was recorded in the second half of the first century, and the latest - in the second half of the twentieth century. When and where to live, whoever they are, Orthodox Saints speak of the unique spiritual reality. Therefore, their sayings so harmoniously complement each other. In the nineteenth century the holy Ignatius Brianchaninov wrote: "When in autumn, cheerful, clean night watching the sky, innumerable stars planted so many different sizes, and I see that all radiate the same light, then I tell myself:" Such works of the Fathers. " When in the summer day watching the vast sea, covered a variety of different ships and their sails spread out like a white swan wings, ships that are moving quickly on the same wind, the same goal, the same pier, then I tell myself: "Such works of the Fathers." When I hear a harmonious, many choir, in which diverse voices in a lovely harmony singing the same song divine, then I tell myself: "Such works of the Fathers."
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