What is the role of a spiritual father
Feb
28
2017
A spiritual father, like a signpost, merely indicates the
A spiritual father, like a signpost, merely indicates the
At the edge of your heart the Lord is standing with a tall candle that burns without smoking or melting. The Lord is standing and waiting at your invitation, to bring the candle into your heart and
Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free. However God loves us equally and perfectly. And we should do the same: let us respect and love that we are different. Based on Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Self-love brings sorrow and is healed by silence. That’s why
The Church is a hospital for sinners who are fighting to become saints. That’s why I think that
When you’ve done everything you can do, that’s when God
Unless we look at a person and see the beauty there is in this person, we can contribute nothing to him. One does not help a person by
Having children is a matter of nature; but raising them and educating them in the virtues is a matter of
If your photos aren’t good enough then you aren’t close enough. This applies as well with regards to
We can see the limits to all human “perfections” but God’s commandments are beyond that because
If you believe firmly that God cares for you, then you do not need to worry about the body, nor need you be concerned about
Perhaps you see yourself as a religious person. But if your tongue is out of control, you are fooling yourself. Your careless
God often isolates those whom He chooses, so that we have
He was despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and as one from whom men hide their faces
An abbot was always very serene even if he had a big brotherhood to deal with. Once upon a time a disciple asked him: “My elder, how do you succeed in being so calm?”
The Church is not a human organization, but a Divine-Human organism. It is not a human corporation, but the Divine-human Body of Christ. The source of the Church is
One of the most important things God has taught me is that I don’t need
Creation is not an event in the past but a relationship in the present. If God did not
Be like a king in your heart, seated high in humility, and commanding laughter: Go, and it goes; and sweet weeping: Come, and it comes; and our tyrant and slave
Don’t worry about anything; instead pray for everything; tell God your needs and don’t forget to thank Him for His answers. If you do this,
The miracle working icon of Paramythia (“the one who comforts”) took the name not from the big miracle which she made by escaping the monks and the monastery from pirates but from
If we live, we are living for the Lord. And if we die, we are dying for the Lord.
If we want to do something but cannot, then
Obedience is absolute renunciation of our own life, clearly expressed in our bodily actions. Or, conversely,
In the midst of the storm, Christ tells us, “Focus on me” and not the storm; then
Orthodoxy is life. If we don’t live Orthodoxy, we simply are
Blessed are those who’ve managed to simplify their life and become liberated from the web of this world’s development of
We need to learn about our ancestors. We need to learn from our ancestors. We need to respect our ancestors. Otherwise we will be condemned to