St. Nektarios of Aegina on Happiness
“How mistaken are those people who seek happiness outside of themselves, in foreign lands and journeys, in riches and glory, in great possessions and pleasures, in diversions and vain...
Elder St Paisios on Faith and Love
“First comes faith and then love. One must believe in order to love. One cannot love something he does not believe in. So to love God we must believe...
Hieroschemamonk Stefan on Keeping Ourselves Pure
By the Sacraments of the Church, especially confession and Communion, and, of course, the asceticism that everyone should bear—fasting, prayer, and most of all, the guarding of the senses....
Elder St. Porphyrios on being Filled with the Spirit
“The Lord said to his disciples, When the Holy Spirit will come, it will 14 A6 teach you all things.’ The Holy Spirit teaches us everything. It sanctifies us....
Fr Daniel Sysoyev+ on Serving God in the World
“St. John Chrysostom said that a monk differs from a layman only in the vow of celibacy. The commandments are the same for a monk and a layman....
Elder St. Joseph the Hesychast on Self-Struggle
“You will not fix the Church or the world. Whereas you will be corrected, perfected, and enlightened so as to enlighten those who are willing. Only a war will...
Elder Ephraim of Arizona on Spiritual Surgery
“A physician torments a sick person with operations, bitter medicines, amputation of body parts, etc., with the purpose, of course, of curing him and not of torturing him out...
Elder Joseph+ of Vatopaidi on Prophecy
“Spiritual charismas are a gift of the very same All Holy Spirit; some precede and others follow. But all are given to the Church to meet its needs and...
Archimandrite Kirill Pavlov+ on the Gospel
“At the present time also many millions of people consider themselves Christians, and that means that they acknowledge the Gospel as the foremost book in the world; as a...
St Tikhon on the Church in America
“…due to the mercy of God, the Church up to this day, now here and now there, gains victory and is triumphant over her enemies – and she has...