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St Symeon Metaphrastis: Without God’s help...

Just as it is impossible for a person without eyes, tongue, ears and feet, to see, talk, hear or walk, so also it is impossible to comm...

Our Will and God's Will

Here is the luminous teaching of our Savior: Thy will be done. (Matt. 6:10). Whoever sincerely pronounces this prayer leaves his own wi...

St Diadochos of Photiki: If the soul is neglected and wholly covered with the leprosy of self-indulgence

If wounds in the body have been neglected and left unattended, they do not react to medicine when the doctors apply it to them; but if ...

St Ignatius Brianchaninov: Guidelines for Spiritual and Monastic Life

In communities where the evening rule is not performed in church but in the cells, the “Prayers Before Sleep” should be read after bows...

St. Mark the Ascetic: Only a perfect man can understand all of his own shortcomings.

We must receive the one who curses us as a messenger from God, rebuking our hidden evil thoughts, so that we, seeing our thoughts with ...

St. Vincent of Lerina: If someone wants to be protected from tricks and remain healthy in the faith...

If someone wants to be protected from tricks and remain healthy in the faith, he must confine his faith first to the authority of the H...

Abbot Nikon: Everybody has an insolvent debt before God.

The closer one is to God in reality -- and not simply in one's imagination -- the more one feels unworthy and sinful, more sinful t...

What does that mean, to think in his heart that he is a sinner?

If the monk does not think in his heart that he is a sinner, God will not hear him.  The brother said, ‘What does that mean, to thi...

What should a man do in all the temptations and evil thoughts that come upon him?

St Moses was asked, ‘What should a man do in all the temptations and evil thoughts that come upon him?’ The old man said to him, ‘He sh...

What is the good of the fasts and watchings which a man imposes on himself?

St Moses was asked, ‘What is the good of the fasts and watchings which a man imposes on himself?’ and he replied, ‘They make the soul h...

St. Silouan the Athonite: It is a great good to be given over to the will of God.

It is a great good to be given over to the will of God. Then the Lord alone is in the soul, and no other thought, and she prays to God ...

St John of Kronstadt: He that does not believe in the God Who saves us in difficult circumstances...

He that does not believe in the God Who saves us in difficult circumstances, but is faint-hearted; he that does not wish to render glor...

St Ignatius Brianchaninov: For those who have a superabundance of strength...

For those who have a superabundance of strength, or live in communities in which the rule is not combined with bows, or where there is ...

St. John Climacus: Let us charge into the good fight with joy and love...

Let us charge into the good fight with joy and love without being afraid of our enemies. Though unseen themselves, they can look at the...

St Maximus the Confessor: The will of the flesh is destroyed by the active obedience to God's commandments

The power of sin - or in other words, the will of the flesh - is destroyed by the grace of holy baptism, and by active obedience to God...

St Gregory of Sinai: Many who practice the commandments think they are following the spiritual path...

Many who practice the commandments think they are following the spiritual path. But they have not yet reached the city, and in fact rem...

St Justin Popovich: When man wakes up in the clay of his body...

When man wakes up in the clay of his body and beholds spiritual realities, he senses that material realities are real and his spirit re...

St. John of Kronstadt: When you ask anything of the Lord...

When you ask anything of the Lord, immediately contemplate His merciful and generous Right Hand, bestowing upon you His gifts, for it i...

St. Photius the Great: When anyone goes into sin...

When anyone goes into sin, his thoughts are is it were enchained and his vision is changed for the worse through that by means of which...

St Ignatius of Antioch: Everyone, will go "to his own place"

Yes, everything is coming to and end, and we stand before this choice -- death or life -- and everyone, will go "to his own place...

St. Theodore the Studite: Everyone who sins is a slave of sin...

Indeed it is written, Everyone who sins is a slave of sin ; but the slave does not abide in the house for ever. The son abides for ever...

St. Tikhon of Zadonsk¨Pride is darkness, but humility is light...

When pride retreats from a man, humility begins to dwell in him, and the more pride is diminished, so much more does humility grow. The...
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