Elder Joseph the Hesychast on Humility
“Where is your humility when you feel and say that everyone wrongs you and that only you are good? Humility is, when the other person is at fault, for...
Elder Ephraim of Arizona on Perseverance
“Do not lose your courage, my child. The deprivations we bear are meant to prepare for us the eternal enjoyment of heaven! We knowingly deprive ourselves of the pleasurable...
St Tikhon of Moscow on Forgiveness
“…we will approach the sacrament of Penance and ask the Lord to forgive our sins, which forgiveness will be granted us only if we ourselves forgive each other. “If...
Elder St Paisios on Self Deception
“When someone lulls to sleep his self-accusing thoughts, he represses his conscience. And when one lulls to sleep, or refuses to acknowledge these self-accusations from his conscience for a...
St. Nikolai Velimirovich on Immersion in God
“The very essence of life is mystic and religious. What is a man or a civilization without mysticism and religion? They are like a painted landscape on paper. You...
Elder Joseph the Hesychast+ on Remembering Death
“…blessed is he who remembers his death day and night and pro pares himself to meet it. For it has a habit of coming joyfully to those who wait...
Elder St Epiphanios on the ‘Truth’
“Because the truth is most certainly one; truths cannot be many in number. The thing is, who is the possessor of the truth? That is the major question. Hence, it is not...
Viking Spirit in the Modern World
“ The Vikings raided (killed, raped, enslaved, looted and pillaged) and traded (exploited and made huge profits). True, many of them then settled like the English, but their spirit...
Abbot Tryphon on Moving Forward
“There are many people who cling to memories of past sins, holding on to guilt and shame, reliving things long ago confessed, as though they happened yesterday. They struggle...
Elder Joseph the Hesychast on Perseverance
“Walk straight ahead. Keep knocking a little longer through frequent prayer, and not just a spring, but waterfalls from heaven and the fountain of the deep will open, so...