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The humble programmer

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  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Edsger W. Dijkstra
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
  • Vices and virtues
Jan 31 2015
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The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own skull; therefore he…

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The meaning of pain

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  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Joy, mourning and joy filled mourning
  • Justice, lying and patience in injustices
  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Prayer
  • Remembrance of death
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Repentance
  • Saint Paisios the Athonite
  • Stillness of body and soul (Hesychia)
Jan 30 2015
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If you want to go to sweet Paradise, you have to eat a lot of bitter things here, so…

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Where we are

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  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Dispassion
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Insensibility (Death of soul)
  • Protopresbyter George Metallinos
  • Repentance
  • Saint Theophan the Recluse
  • Tradition, learning and education
Jan 29 2015
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The sickness of human nature is the failure to reach personal perfection. The diagnosis concerns…

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What can we learn from an old clock

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  • Anger, Meekness, Simplicity and Innocence
  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Love
  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
  • Obedience
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Repentance
  • Saint Paisios the Athonite
Jan 28 2015
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Don’t wind the clock too tightly or the spring may break. This is the way it is with…

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Advice for the young

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  • Elder Arsenie Papacioc
  • Love
  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
  • Obedience
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Remembrance of wrongs
  • Saint Paisios the Athonite
  • Tradition, learning and education
  • Vices and virtues
Jan 27 2015
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The young are in need of…

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Detachment to Perfection

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  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Remembrance of death
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Saint John of the Ladder
Jan 26 2015
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Those who have come to love the Lord are at first unceasingly and greatly

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Give everything to God. He is your source of joy

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  • Avarice (Love of Money) and Self-Imposed Poverty
  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Insensibility (Death of soul)
  • Joy, mourning and joy filled mourning
  • Justice, lying and patience in injustices
  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
  • Renunciation of the world
Jan 25 2015
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For those who give everything to God, God will…

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The Mystery of Holy Unction

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  • Baptism, Tonsure, and Funerals
  • Informational
  • New Testament
  • Prayer
Jan 24 2015
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The mystery of holy unction provides both…

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How to Escape Fear

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  • Avarice (Love of Money) and Self-Imposed Poverty
  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
  • Obedience
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Remembrance of wrongs
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Saint Barsanuphius the Great
Jan 23 2015
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With God, fear nothing, but cast all of your care upon Him, and He will…

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How Do we Choose a Spiritual Father?

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  • Anger, Meekness, Simplicity and Innocence
  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Love
  • Obedience
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Repentance
  • Tradition, learning and education
  • Vices and virtues
Jan 22 2015
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A good spiritual father is not one who simply forgives sins in confession. All spiritual fathers absolve sins by virtue of their ordination. A good spiritual father is one who…

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How to Live a Good Life

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  • Anger, Meekness, Simplicity and Innocence
  • Avarice (Love of Money) and Self-Imposed Poverty
  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Justice, lying and patience in injustices
  • Love
  • Remembrance of wrongs
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Repentance
  • Saint Gennadius of Constantinople
  • Slander
  • Vices and virtues
Jan 21 2015
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To judge sins is the business of one who is sinless; who is sinless except God? It is not right to…

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Where Spiritual Progress is Found

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  • Avarice (Love of Money) and Self-Imposed Poverty
  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Dispassion
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Insensibility (Death of soul)
  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Prayer
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Saint Paisios the Athonite
  • Sleep and vigil
  • Vices and virtues
Jan 20 2015
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A person who strives for a long time but doesn’t see spiritual progress has pride and egotism. Spiritual progress is found where there is…

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Why do We Believe in Christ?

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  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Dispassion
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Insensibility (Death of soul)
  • Justice, lying and patience in injustices
  • Love
  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
  • Obedience
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Tradition, learning and education
  • Vices and virtues
  • Victory over death
Jan 19 2015
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The easy answer would be to say that He was revealed as Christ and Savior in the words of the Bible; but words are…

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Raising Young Ones

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  • Avarice (Love of Money) and Self-Imposed Poverty
  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Gluttony and Fasting
  • Insensibility (Death of soul)
  • Justice, lying and patience in injustices
  • Love
  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
  • Obedience
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Repentance
  • Tradition, learning and education
Jan 18 2015
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In truth there is only one freedom…

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How to Become the First One

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  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Dispassion
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Gluttony and Fasting
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Insensibility (Death of soul)
  • Justice, lying and patience in injustices
  • Love
  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
  • New Testament
  • Obedience
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Prayer
  • Remembrance of wrongs
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Saint Silouan the Athonite
  • Vices and virtues
Jan 17 2015
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With all your power, ask the Lord for humility and brotherly love, because God

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Why are children so happy?

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  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Dispassion
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Justice, lying and patience in injustices
  • Love
  • Passion, purity and chastity
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Remembrance of wrongs
  • Repentance
  • Saint Paisios the Athonite
  • Vices and virtues
Jan 16 2015
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Why are children so happy? It is because children…

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Divine Providence

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  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • father Elias Minjatios
  • Justice, lying and patience in injustices
  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Remembrance of wrongs
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Repentance
Jan 15 2015
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It is a definite truth that Divine Providence…

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How to treat the spiritual illness

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  • Love
  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
  • Obedience
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Remembrance of wrongs
  • Repentance
Jan 14 2015
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We are taught to bear the spiritual illnesses of our brothers

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What is the difference between Christianity and philosophy?

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  • Dispassion
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • father Dumitru Staniloae
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Metropolitan Hierotheos (Vlachos) of Nafpaktos
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Tradition, learning and education
  • Vices and virtues
  • Victory over death
Jan 13 2015
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Christianity is not a philosophy in the sense that prevails today. Philosophy

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The Archangel

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  • Dispassion
  • Love
  • Obedience
  • Passion, purity and chastity
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Stillness of body and soul (Hesychia)
  • Vices and virtues
  • Victory over death
Jan 12 2015
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The purity of angels comes from their obedience to God. Like any other rational being, they had the

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The whole world lies under the sway of the wicked one

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  • Renunciation of the world
  • Saint Dyonisius the Aeropagite
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  • Tradition, learning and education
  • Vices and virtues
Jan 11 2015
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“The whole world lies under the sway of the wicked one”. Material things with their

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Separation

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  • Anger, Meekness, Simplicity and Innocence
  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Insensibility (Death of soul)
  • Justice, lying and patience in injustices
  • Love
  • Passion, purity and chastity
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Remembrance of wrongs
  • Repentance
  • Saint Paisios the Athonite
  • Vices and virtues
Jan 10 2015
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My child, people separate because of their

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„Freedom”: How do YOU understand it?

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  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Dispassion
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Gluttony and Fasting
  • Insensibility (Death of soul)
  • Justice, lying and patience in injustices
  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
  • Passion, purity and chastity
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Remembrance of wrongs
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Repentance
  • Stillness of body and soul (Hesychia)
  • Tradition, learning and education
  • Vices and virtues
Jan 09 2015
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Some people understand the word freedom as the ability to…

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The trick to keep your wealth

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  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Gluttony and Fasting
  • Love
  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
  • New Testament
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Saint Basil the Great
Jan 08 2015
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If you begin to guard wealth it will not be yours. Rather, if you

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How to get God’s help

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  • Dispassion
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Insensibility (Death of soul)
  • Joy, mourning and joy filled mourning
  • Justice, lying and patience in injustices
  • Love
  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
  • Obedience
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Remembrance of wrongs
  • Repentance
  • Saint Moses of Optina
  • Saint Nicholaos Velimirovich
  • Slander
  • Vices and virtues
Jan 07 2015
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Absolutely nothing will help us if we are not lenient toward the weaknesses of men and forgive them. For how can we…

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How to overcome the war against yourself

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  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Dispassion
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Joy, mourning and joy filled mourning
  • Love
  • Motivation, toil, diligence and laziness
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Prayer
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Repentance
  • Saint Porphyrios of Kavsokalivia
  • Slander
  • Stillness of body and soul (Hesychia)
  • Vices and virtues
Jan 06 2015
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When someone wages war against you, take example of Crist’s crucifixion. Don’t fight fire with fire. It makes you look ridiculous. Instead make…

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The Light of Communion

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  • Victory over death
Jan 05 2015
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Theophany is the Feast which reveals the Most Holy Trinity to the world through the…

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