St Nikolai on the Church
“The Church of Christ is One, Holy, Universal and Apostolic. She is herself a single spiritual body, whose head is Christ, and who has the one Holy Spirit abiding...
Elder Ephraim of Arizona on Pain
“Here in this vain world, my child, we shall be afflicted, we shall be embittered, we shall feel pain. But all this is for a limited time; it is...
On the Need for Vigilance
“This is why vigilance is called for all throughout the Scriptures. Mindfulness is a virtue that calls us to remember our failings. I believe that is a rightful word...
Elder Cleopa+ on the Scriptures
[Holy Scripture]… is not sufficient to guide man to salvation, inasmuch as, firstly, it wasn’t given to man from the beginning and, secondly, when it was given it wasn’t...
Elder Cleopa+ on the Scriptures
… “Holy Scripture is understood and explained in three ways: 1) according to its literal meaning, namely the nominal, grammatical, verbal and historical, 2) allegorically or metaphorically, which is...
Fr Seraphim Rose on True Accounts of the Beyond
“True Christian experiences of heaven always bear one and the same stamp of other-worldly experience. Those who have In held heaven have not merely travelled to a different place;...
Elder St. Porphyrios on the Intensity of Prayer
“God is everywhere present and fills all things. I try to take wings to infinity and fly amidst the stars. My mind is lost in the magnificence of God’s...
Elder St Paisios on the Importance of Baptism
“Once there was a monk on Mount Athos who was from a Bulgarian village where a lot of people weren’t baptised. He told me that when he was still...
St Tikhon of America on Judging Others
“Yet we love to observe the sins of others. Not considering the beam in our own eye, we take notice of the mote in our brother’s eye. (Matt. 7....
Fr John Moses+ on Losing the Faith
“People begin their life in the Orthodox Church with so much hope. They feed on the love and affection of God, the beauty of the liturgies, and the warmth...