Wisdom From Modern Orthodox Elders
“… I was given another parrot… It was also wild to begin with just like the first one. In the same way with prayer and gentleness I tamed this...
Wisdom From Modern Orthodox Elders
“When a Christian forgives his neighbor some transgression he forgets that sin and does not talk about it to others. But you are committing two sins. First you are...
Wisdom from Modern Orthodox Elders
“Simplicity and gentleness are a very saintly mode of spiritual life but you cannot learn this in an external way. It must suffuse itself mystically within you so that...
Wisdom from Modern Orthodox Elders
“Compel yourselves; say the prayer; stop idle talk; close your mouth to criticism; placed doors and locks against unnecessary words. Time passes and does not come back and woe...
Wisdom from Modern Orthodox Elders
“Many times in confession the following happens to me: so long as you present the problems to me which are related with sins I prepare my thought and some...
Wisdom from Modern Orthodox Elders
“… Reality is one thing and human imagined concept of reality is something else. Likewise our Savior has revealed the truth about the real existence of the one true...
Modern Orthodox Elders
“The spiritual life does not require years. Within a second one can find himself gone from hell to Paradise if he repents. Man is changeable. You can become an...
Modern Orthodox Elders
“When you have carnal warfare be very careful with filthy fantasies, which produced dirty thoughts. Stop and expel fantasies as soon as they come. Immediately say the prayer with...
Wisdom From Modern Orthodox Elders
“In Orthodoxy human goodness and kindness is the outpouring of the love of man for God and for his neighbor. All other goodness and kindness that comes from other...
Wisdom From Modern Orthodox Elder
“For if God does not for a moment tire of giving us good things, how can we tire of thanking Him for these good things?” (St. Nikolai Velimirovich)