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Ιf you only knew (Saint John of Kronstadt)

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If you hate your enemy, you show how stupid you are. Because if your enemy’s hunting you, you’re also hunting him inside yourself. And tell me, isn’t hunting the worst and most brutal persecution, with hatred for your enemy tormenting you? Ah, if only you knew what a triumph and what a blessing it is to love your enemies and to be a benefactor for them.

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Don’t Turn Back (Protopresbyter Themistoklis Mourtzanos)

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‘You’ve ascended the ladder of renunciation; don’t turn back’ (Saint John of the Ladder). How many times, in the course of marriage or family life, are we troubled by the thought that perhaps we married the wrong person. Our mind goes to other loves and we invent scenarios in which we’d have been happier with someone else or with other choices. We wonder whether we’ve made mistakes in the way we’ve brought up the children, if we should have done things differently, if we gave them as much time as we should have, listened to them enough, if we were too lenient or too strict. We have the same concerns regarding our professional choices, the way we’ve handled our money, ...

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