Makarii Glukharev

“{{Cite book |last=Kharlampovich |first=Konstantin Vasil'evich |translator-first=James Lawton |translator-last=Haney |title=Archimandrite Makarii Glukharev: Founder of the Altai Mission |publisher=Edwin Mellon Press |date=2001 |series=Studies in Russian History |volume=6}} Translated by James Lawton Haney.”

“My God, be the essence of my feelings, my searchings, my meditations, and all my actions. Act in me, that all I begin to do, I would perform for the glory of Your name, that I would serve my fellow creatures filled with Your love. Send down your Holy Spirit into my heart. Let your Holy Spirit lead me from the beginning until the end and let Him be in me as will, deed, and achievement.”

“Prayer is a fruit of love.”

“I would like you to be more diligent in noble music; it is an art that elevates the soul.”

“The Lord tames the proud and gives his blessing to the humble. Learn from our Saviour to be humble until the end of life. Dig this well deep; the more living water there is, the more abundantly God's love will be poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit.”

“Let us be mistrustful of our own feelings...stand firm, let us not be hypocritical in our faith and in our devotion to Jesus Christ. Do not place hope in yourself but set all your hopes in God--that is the first lesson incumbent upon you to learn.”

“A monk doesn't need any property. He doesn't need any safe deposit boxes or purses. The poor and wretched, they are our safe deposit boxes. Thieves will not steal what has been placed in them. They will be unlocked only in the next world.”

“Altai people! Altai people! Your squirrels have their burrows, but Christ has no place to lay his head.”

“Work done without conservation is vanity and fuss.”