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...
Since the matter of salvation is the most important in our lives, this is precisely why it’s also the most...
The purpose of the Christian life is for our intellect to be united with our heart, because then we’re cured....
You have to get your mind used to swimming in the Law of the Lord, under Whose guidance you’ll regulate...
211When you were praying and you received divine enlightenment, you felt joy and ineffable sweetness. Immediately, a robber – the...
Nobility is the preservation of the properties of the image of God and the equivalence with the archetype. This is...
Uncharitable people are unhappy because their heart has never felt the joy of doing good works and or giving alms. They...
The incontrovertible judgment of the Fathers regarding the practical manner in which to achieve this God-pleasing quality is- in their...
Don’t express them in words. Let them quieten down within you and they’ll soon disappear. We’re human, and often enough...
Don’t worry if you don’t find Grace in your prayer. It’ll come back. This is why it withdraws: so that...
Prayer without repentance is of no help at all. But as soon as prayer is connected to repentance, then it’s...
