3. What are the greatest gifts of God?

Repentance and Communion are the greatest of all the gifts of God. In part, the holy books can also be included here (St. Barsanuphius the Great).

4. What should a spiritual person beware of?

The ascetic of virtue must in every way avoid thoughts that enter his mind and heart that please him. Satan is very ingenious in wickedness: when he cannot distract people known for piety from their precious life and behavior and persuade them to do what he pleases, he tries to defeat them in another way. He praises them as people who have attained perfection, then glorifies them as saints, and glorifies them as having already become friends of God and have attained to the utmost of every virtue. And in this way, having engendered in them the passion of pride, it stirs them up in enmity against God, and finally uproots them, like a certain plant. Therefore, as I said, we must shun thoughts that delight us in our minds and hearts (St. Cyril of Alexandria).

5. What is the most important thing for a Christian to do?

The most important thing is to learn the true faith (St. Ambrose of Milan).

6. How can we gain righteous thinking?

The beginning of a righteous way of thinking is to hear and read the Word of God and the Holy Fathers (St. Ephraim the Syrian).

7. What do we need to know?

The will of God and what deeds are virtues and which are sins, we must all know. And whoever does not do this sins before God. And it turns out that whoever keeps himself in darkness and illiteracy sins twice: both by not knowing the will of God, and by not using the means to know it, and by deliberately "keeping himself in darkness" (St. Theophanes the Recluse).

8. How can we strengthen ourselves in the Church?