Elder Joseph of Vatopaidi+ on Grace and Repentance
“”Christ is the living truth. “I am the way, and the truth and the life” (John 14, 6). Therefore, He is life without beginning, unlimited , unbound, co-eternal with...
St Nikolai Velimirovich on Heretics
“But the heretics, just like the heathens, do not work with the standard of man-the-god but with man-the-worm. And they reason like this – what is impossible for one...
Elder St Paisios on Divine Providence
“We must examine ourselves to see if we are at fault. If we are not at fault, the obstacle is most likely from God for our benefit. For this...
Elder St. Porphyrios on our Freedom
“The explanation which our faith gives is as follows: evil exists and comes from the devil. Within us we have both the evil spirit and the good spirit and...
Elder St. Paisios on Venerating Icons
“The devout person will especially venerate the holy Icons. And when we say, “He will venerate the holy Icons” we mean he venerates the person depicted on the Icon....
Elder Joseph the Hesychast on the Hard Struggle
“We are not battling with a man, whom you can kill in many ways, but with the powers and rulers of darkness. They are not fought with sweets and...
Father Seraphim Rose+ on the ‘End’
“We should not be counting the years or calculating who is the “King of the South,” the “King of the North,” and so on, but going more deeply. All...
The Truth of Scripture
“For me, absolute truth, absolute history is Holy Scripture. Once came to Metropolitan Philaret a glamorous society lady who said (she also referred to natural sciences): ‘How can you...
Elder St. Porphyrios on the All-knowing God
“God’s knowledge is beyond comprehension for our own mind. It is infinite and encompasses all beings, visible and invisible, from the beginning of time until the end of time....
Elder St Paisios on Lack of Discipline
“Their condition is the fault of their parents who never understood the nature of discipline. They give children such excessive freedoms that they turn them into little hooligans. You...