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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...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...