Elder St. Paisios on Wordly Emptiness
“When one does not believe in the other life, he seeks to know this world, to enjoy in this life one thing and then another and another … but...
Orthodox Quote for January 11
“Every internal movement which the Spirit stimulates within us, every desire for what is good, every fine inspiration we feel, are indications of what our Beloved engenders within us...
Orthodox Quote for January 10
In spiritual life there can be no peace, in the spiritual life there is always a struggle with our thoughts, with our sins, but it is so that we...
Orthodox Quote for January 9
“…you’ll see, our Benevolent God will find a way for these kind-hearted people, either with trials and tribulations, with illnesses, hardships, with an earthquake, a lightning bolt, a deluge,...
Orthodox Quote for January 8
“To give one’s heart to God is to dedicate our whole life to him. This dedication does not require that we renounce all that we have. We are merely...
Elder St. Paisios on Effortless ‘Holiness’
“Unfortunately, in our day, words and books have multiplied and experiences have diminished, because the worldly spirit, which pursues all conveniences and avoids all bodily effort, influences people. Most...
Orthodox Quote for January 7
“Delicacies are my pleasure while my soul goes hungry…Break the stone that is my heart, saving Jesus, so that the inner me may be softened and a stream of...
Daily Devotional for January 7-13
Sunday THIS SUNDAY… Act 19:1-8 9 And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus: and finding certain...
Orthodox Quote for January 6
“…after His baptism, having as a man been filled with the Holy Spirit, Christ begins to show the way to triumph over temptation, sin, sickness, religious hypocrisy, political oppression,...
Orthodox Quote for January 5
“Ceaseless prayer and gratitude to God for all that happens to us are the necessary conditions for a natural life. If people don’t thank God for everything, they can’t...