The demon of fear that tempts you, saying „Where can you flee? You have no repentance; you have no escape”, belongs to the enemy who is trying to make you lose self-control, whereas godly sadness does not attack you, but says, „Do not be afraid; try again”, for it knows that humanity is weak, and strengthens us.
Do not forget these words: God has given you time to build
I saw that there was no tragedy in God. Tragedy is to be found solely in
The person who loves the most is he who humbles himself the most. No one will ever attain the degree of humility of Christ or His Mother, hence
Our struggle to enter into the eternal life of God Himself is neither a simple nor an easy thing. Our attitude is ‘May your will be done’. Then the potential develops within us to conceive of God as He is in His eternity. “Saint Sophrony of Essex”
We may say that even today mankind as a whole has not grown up to Christianity and continues to drag out an almost brutish existence. In refusing to accept Christ as Eternal Man and, more importantly, as True God and our Saviour-whatever the form the refusal takes, and whatever the pretext-we lose the light of life eternal. ‘Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovest me before the foundation of the world’ (John 17.24). There, in the […]
Don’t be dictatorial in the way you speak, though this doesn’t mean that you should deny true values. Just be aware of your own limitations. Based on Saint Sophrony of Essex
One of the signs of egotism is the presence of some feeling of jealousy within us.