Give your heart entirely to God, not to the world. Those who’ve given their heart to the world are enemies...
The secret is to seek union with Christ unselfishly, without saying ‘Give me this or that’. It’s enough to say...
For people to go to sweet Paradise, they have to eat a lot of things bitter here below, so that...
There are many ways of praying. They’re all good, if people don’t know how to pray with simplicity. But if...
All the ordinances of the undefiled Church are offered to the world for the sole purpose of discovering the ‘deep...
In their flesh, people are like a burning candle. The candle is destined to melt, as people are to die....
Peace is the integrity and health of the soul. read more
There are many ways of praying. They’re all good, if people don’t know how to pray with simplicity. read more
Peace is the integrity and health of the soul. Losing your peace means losing your spiritual health. » Saint John of...
Souls that love God and the truth don’t suffer even the slightest reduction in their passionate love for the Lord....
Besides, the collapse of ideologies, including religions, has left a vacuum, not only in the realm of ideas. First and...
When faith wanes, the heart becomes uneasy, weak, like a straw blown in the wind, lifeless. Don’t pay any attention...
Knowledge, sensation, understanding, contemplation, insight and every movement of the intellect, everything in all things, should be directed towards God....
The most striking proof that the devil’s at work in the world is the fact that people hardly recognize, if...
Very often humanistic wisdom is not simply different from divine wisdom. It is also opposite to it. Human wisdom “is...
To fall under the sway of your passions and abandon yourself to them is the ultimate slavery, because it’s the...
People who offer ‘your own from your own, in all things and for all things’ serve God truly and pleasingly....
The purpose of the Christian life is for our intellect to be united with our heart, because then we’re cured....
We have to pray for the departed. The poor people are awaiting trial, and if you give them an orange...
I can foresee no way in which the teachings of the Orthodox Christian tradition could be affected by the discovery...
