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The will of the heart

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  • Renunciation of the world
  • Saint Theophan the Recluse
  • Vices and virtues
Mar 31 2016
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If you are purified from the passions, then you can leave your heart freely to its will. But the more active its passions are, if you leave your heart to its will, it’ll condemn itself to general instability and insecurity. “Saint Theophan the Recluse”

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It doesn’t see the tomb

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  • Dispassion
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Saint Nicholaos Velimirovich
  • Victory over death
Mar 30 2016
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The spirit which hasn’t been darkened by sin looks up high into the heavens, it doesn’t look down at the tomb. But the spirit that’s been darkened by sin looks into the grave and doesn’t see the heavens at all. Sin and virtue govern our spiritual vision, depending on the aims of each, and each reveals its own world. “Saint Nicholas Velimirovich”

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Burnished pearls

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  • Avarice (Love of Money) and Self-Imposed Poverty
  • Elder Arsenie Boca
  • Love
Mar 28 2016
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The tears of gratitude shed by the poor for your acts of charity towards them will be burnished pearls for you in the life beyond the grave. “Elder Arsenie Boca”

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Love and pressure

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  • Love
  • Saint Porphyrios of Kavsokalivia
  • Tradition, learning and education
Mar 25 2016
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The supposedly ‘pious’ parents, whose concern was to make their children into ‘good Christians’, oppressed them through their human love and achieved the opposite to what they wanted. Children are pressed when they’re little and then, when they become sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, they go off in a different direction. “Saint Porphyrios of Kavsokalyvia”

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Give and take

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  • Love
  • Saint Paisios the Athonite
Mar 24 2016
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If you give all your love to God, you’ll receive all of His in return, to pass on to other people. “Saint Paisios the Athonite”

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Don’t shrug your shoulders

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  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Saint Nicholaos Velimirovich
Mar 23 2016
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Even if you can’t become a first class saint. like Saint Anthony, don’t just shrug your shoulders and say ‘There’s nothing I can do about it’. Try even harder and double the talent that God gave you. “Saint Nicholas Velimirovich”

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It’s of great importance

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  • Elder Thaddeos of Vitovnica
  • Prayer
Mar 22 2016
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It’s enormously important that there should be someone in the family who really prays. Prayer draws down the Grace of God and all of the members of the family feel it, even those whose hearts have frozen over. Always pray. “Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica”

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At the mercy of their sins

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  • Justice, lying and patience in injustices
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Saint John Chrysostom
Mar 21 2016
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The righteous are made sad by the just trials they undergo, but benefit from them, to the glory of God. The unrighteous, on the other hand, are at the mercy of their sins. “Saint John Chrysostom”

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Not everyone betrays

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  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Elder Georgios Kapsanis
  • Faith, Anxiety, Uncertainty and Cowardice
  • Justice, lying and patience in injustices
Mar 20 2016
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In every age, not everyone betrays, not everybody deserts. Some remain faithful. Some keep up the struggle. Some don’t exchange their faith in the true God for anything worldly and secular. This, in any case, is why we have martyrs. “Abbot Georgios Kapsanis of Gregoriou”

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The Aim

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  • Passion, purity and chastity
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Saint John of Kronstadt
  • Vices and virtues
Mar 19 2016
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If you don’t want to be enslaved to the passions and the devil on a daily basis, you have to set yourself an aim that you’ll always bear in mind and that you’ll try to achieve, overcoming all obstacles through the Lord’s assistance. “Saint John of Kronstadt”

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Exchange

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  • Dispassion
  • Elder Georgios Kapsanis
  • Renunciation of the world
Mar 18 2016
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Christians exchange their distorted intellect for that of Christ, their distorted heart for the heart and tenderness of Christ, their distorted ethos for that of Christ. “Abbot Georgios Kapsanis of Gregoriou”

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Greedily take as much as you can

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  • Repentance
  • Saint Ignatius Brianchaninoff
  • Stillness of body and soul (Hesychia)
Mar 17 2016
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Fill yourself greedily with the word of God. Fill yourself greedily with observing Christ’s commandments. Fill yourself greedily with the food on the table which has been prepared before you by the Lord and get drunk on His exquisite wine. “Saint Ignatius Brianchaninoff”

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How devil works

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  • Despair and Discouragement
  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Insensibility (Death of soul)
  • Saint Porphyrios of Kavsokalivia
Mar 16 2016
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The devil’s managed to diminish himself to such an extent that he’s got people to use other names for him. They don’t accept that it’s the devil who moves and incites people to egotism. “Saint Porphyrios of Kavsokalyvia”

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Fruitlessly and harmfully

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  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Patience, trials and peaceful living
  • Saint Ignatius Brianchaninoff
Mar 15 2016
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We labor in vain, in vain, pointlessly and to our detriment when we attempt to acquire the sublime gifts of the spirit prematurely. Our merciful God gives them at the appropriate time to those who steadfastly, patiently and humbly observe the Gospel commandments. “Saint Ignatius Brianchaninoff”

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It’s not food

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  • Discernment, Experience and Enlightenment
  • Gluttony and Fasting
  • Joy, mourning and joy filled mourning
  • Saint Porphyrios of Kavsokalivia
Mar 14 2016
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It’s not food or favourable living conditions that ensure our health. It’s a holy life, the life of Christ. I know ascetics who fasted very strictly and never had anything wrong with them. Nobody risks getting ill from fasting. Nobody’s ever done so. “Saint Porphyrios of Kavsokalyvia”

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All virtues in one

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  • Elder Georgios Kapsanis
  • Love
Mar 13 2016
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All the virtues are aspects of the one, great virtue, the virtue of love. When, as a Christian, you acquire love, you’ve got all the virtues. It’s love that expels from our soul the root cause of all evil and all the passions, which, according to the Fathers, is selfishness. “Abbot Georgios Kapsanis of Gregoriou”

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Sacrifice everything

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  • Renunciation of the world
  • Saint Paisios the Athonite
Mar 12 2016
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Sacrifice everything for Christ. For Christ, though, not for anything or anyone. “Saint Paisios the Athonite”

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While working

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  • Prayer
  • Saint Ephraim of Katounakia
Mar 11 2016
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You can’t go to Church on Sunday because you’re working? You can make yourself an altar at that time by saying a prayer. “Elder Ephraim of Katounakia”

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A leap of joy

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  • Elder Amphilochios Makris of Patmos
  • Prayer
Mar 10 2016
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Cultivate the Jesus prayer and the time will come when your heart will leap for joy, as it does when you’re about to meet someone dear to you. “Elder Amphilochios Makris of Patmos”

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The Lord respects our freedom

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  • Archimandrite Gabriel Dionysiates
  • Love
  • Renunciation of the world
  • Repentance
Mar 09 2016
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When He came into the world, Our Lord Jesus Christ had complete respect for the freedom of us His servants: ‘Let those who wish to do so follow me’. So, are we, His supporters, to declare implacable warfare against anyone who does not accept our views, against those who disagree with our views on ideology, politics or party? “Archimandrite Gabriel Dionysiates”

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Struggle and sacrifice

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  • Love
  • Saint Ephraim of Katounakia
Mar 08 2016
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God wants a clean heart from us. That we should take notice only of Him. God doesn’t want company in our heart. He wants to rule there alone. “Elder Ephraim of Katounakia”

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Like a lit candle

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  • Dispassion
  • Remembrance of death
  • Repentance
  • Saint Seraphim of Sarov
  • Victory over death
Mar 07 2016
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In careful people, the intellect is like a watchful guard and sentinel of the inner Jerusalem. From the height of the spiritual life it sees its surroundings with a clear eye, as it does the opposing forces within the soul. With their flesh, people are like lit candles. The candle’s destined to melt and people are destined to die. The soul is immortal, however, which is why our concern should be directed more to the soul than to the body: ‘For what does it profit people if they gain the whole world but lose their soul? Or what will people […]

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How to buy Paradise

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  • Elder Amphilochios Makris of Patmos
  • Justice, lying and patience in injustices
  • Love
Mar 06 2016
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With a good word about your neighbor, in their defense, you buy Paradise. “Elder Amphilochios Makris of Patmos”

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Don’t abandon the prayer

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  • Prayer
  • Saint Ephraim of Katounakia
Mar 05 2016
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If you’re busy, if you’ve got something to attend to, don’t abandon the Jesus prayer, because it’ll glorify you. “Saint Ephraim of Katounakia”

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The prayer of the heart

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  • Elder Charalambos of Dionysiou
  • Prayer
Mar 04 2016
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We say that mental prayer is for all Christians. Mental prayer is also called prayer of the heart. You ask if prayer spoken aloud can also be called prayer of the heart… Unless it’s pure, neither mental nor spoken prayer can be called prayer of the heart. “Elder Charalambos of Dionysiou”

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The health and sickness of the soul

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  • Remembrance of wrongs
  • Repentance
  • Saint Basil the Great
Mar 03 2016
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Take care that you know the health and sickness of your soul. “Saint Basil the Great”

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On spiritual health

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  • Remembrance of wrongs
  • Repentance
  • Saint Porphyrios of Kavsokalivia
  • Vices and virtues
Mar 02 2016
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It’s great to walk, to work, to move and to have your health. But first you should have your spiritual health. Your spiritual health is fundamental, then comes bodily health. Almost all sicknesses come from the lack of trust in God and this creates stress. “Saint Porphyrios of Kavsokalyvia”

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He’ll bring them low

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  • Humility, pride and unclean thoughts
  • Saint Nicholaos Velimirovich
Mar 01 2016
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God allows proud people to be humbled and brought low because they think that their power is assured for ever. “Saint Nicholas Velimirovich”

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