As the image of God, people should be self-aware, free and in control of themselves, because if awareness is taken...
He doesn’t take into consideration what people were – good or bad, virtuous or sinful – before they desired Grace....
Being a Christian, in the narrow sense, means making extreme efforts to cleanse your heart and your mind from nasty...
If you are purified from the passions, then you can leave your heart freely to its will. But the more...
The struggle is relentless and continuous, external and internal. Sometimes, the enemy acts visibly, through people and things, and at...
st-nikolai-vGod didn’t send us to earth so that we could live comfortably but for us to prepare for the eternal...
Porfirie xThe supposedly ‘pious’ parents, whose concern was to make their children into ‘good Christians’, oppressed them through their human...
The path of life is all pain and tears, all thorns and nails. Crosses spring up everywhere, there’s stress and...
When people see everything with good thoughts, they’re cleansed and given Grace by God. With bad thoughts, you condemn and...
Unless you sacrifice your self for the sake of the slightest virtue or shed blood in order to receive the...
Every prayer of the Church assists with the purification of the heart. But especially the Jesus Prayer: ‘Lord Jesus Christ...
Sin wears away at people every day, so they need a savior on a daily basis. This Savior is Jesus...
In every age, not everyone betrays, not everybody deserts. Some remain faithful. Some keep up the struggle. Some don’t exchange...
You have to know and always remember that you’re a fallen person. And since you fell through your reason and...
If you don’t want to be enslaved to the passions and the devil on a daily basis, you have to...
People who are humble are cognizant of their inner state and however bad it is, don’t lose their personality. They...
Christians exchange their distorted intellect for that of Christ, their distorted heart for the heart and tenderness of Christ, their...
Whatever’s wrong with people is coincidental. Don’t look down on anybody even if you see how immoral, prone to drink...
All the virtues are aspects of the one, great virtue, the virtue of love. When, as a Christian, you acquire...
Cultivate the Jesus prayer and the time will come when your heart will leap for joy, as it does when...
