Many of our saints changed dejection into joy through their love for Christ. In other words, they took this spiritual...
People can’t know their weaknesses unless they fall into temptations of the body. Then they pray, are distraught and are...
The harder the struggle, the greater the victory. In the heavenly market-place, there aren’t any cheap wares. The moments of...
All those who’ve been sanctified, and then those who’ve been saved, all those who’ve passed through the furnace of sorrows....
Your hearts are young and want to love. So you should have only Christ in your heart. Your Bridegroom wishes...
Doubt is blasphemy against God. It’s insolence, a lie of the spirit of evil that nestles in your heart in...
They are truly blessed who seek virtue and practice it and examine carefully what it is. If you wish to...
Divine Grace is sweet, peaceful, humble, quiet, cathartic, i lluminating and joyful, and there’s no room for doubt that it’s...
One of the most powerful ploys of the devil is to debilitate the heart through sloth. In this way he...
Temptations teach us the experience of spiritual warfare, they toughen us up in life and help us progress spiritually. They...
The saintliness of the parents saves the children. For this to happen, Divine Grace has to act upon the souls...
Trust in God is a continuous mystical prayer which quietly draws the powers of God, where and when they’re required. » Venerable Païsios the Athonite...
Any prayer spoken with humility and pain of the heart is always heard by God. » Venerable Païsios the Athonite Source: ...
Repentance without a complete turnaround is nothing more than a travesty before God and the soul. It doesn’t do to...
Temptations are trials that come upon people from the devil and his minions, that is, bad people. In practice, they’re...
By true divine providence, beings have within them a rule and law which allows those who appear to be ungrateful...
People can pray without ceasing provided they’re always standing before God in heart and mind. They can be working with...
Being indifferent towards the enemy is a great art: the art of arts. And it comes about only by divine...
Temptations, then, test souls, to see if they love God or not, and it’s these temptations that make souls worthy...
When people extracted gold, silver and precious stones from the earth, and when they’d made more soft clothes than they...
