What earthly joy remains untouched by grief? What glory stands forever on the earth? Frail shadows of elusive dreams which death will one day sweep away. But in the light of Thy countenance, O Christ, … [Read more...]
Acknowledging Failure
August 20, 2008 By Leave a Comment
"If we can't struggle much, or even not at all, at least let us humbly recognize this and ask for God's mercy. If this recognition were not for our own benefit, then Christ wouldn't ask it from us." - … [Read more...]
Looking to the Champions
August 17, 2008 By Leave a Comment
The best medicine in every trial of ours is the greater trials suffered by our fellow men, if only we can call them to mind. - Elder Paisios … [Read more...]
Fascination for things binds one to anger
May 3, 2008 By Leave a Comment
He who is not indifferent to fame and pleasure, as well as to love of riches that exists because of them and increases them, cannot cut off occasions for anger. And he who does not cut these off … [Read more...]
With what to adorn the Intellect
April 26, 2008 By Leave a Comment
...adorn your thinking power with a constant attention to God, prayer and knowledge of divine truths; the desiring power - with total self-denial and renunciation of all self-indulgence; the excitable … [Read more...]
The Joy of Ownership
April 24, 2008 By Leave a Comment
He who has tasted the things on high easily despises what is below. But he who has not tasted the things above finds joy in possessions. -- St. John Climacus Comment: As soon as one has a house or a … [Read more...]
Trying to Catch the Wind
April 23, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Do not dare to raise your weak hand to stop the elemental tide of apostasy. Avoid it, protect yourself from it, and that is enough for you. Get to know the spirit of the times, study it so you can … [Read more...]
The Tide
April 21, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Truly never before has the cross of each person who wants to be a true Christian been as heavy as in this time of the triumph of falsehood which we are experiencing. Never before on this earth has … [Read more...]
The Soft Wax of the World
April 12, 2008 By Leave a Comment
The mind of the righteous man, then, must not be like wax or some other soft material, which always gets its form and shape from the mark that is stamped on it and that remains there until it receives … [Read more...]