Fr. Michael on Personal Prayer
“The problem for most of us who live in the urban environment is that we have no way of daily escaping into the natural world which was the spiritual...
Elder Anthimos+ on True Repentance
“Today young people have an egotistical outlook. They do not easily agree to submit to the Church. Every youth has his own understanding. All of them are unsubmissive and...
Fr. George Maximov on Apostasy and Christian Struggle
“Christianity is not simply the acceptance of some abstract God and a set of popular moral prescriptions. Christians believe in Jesus Christ—God Who became Man, Who does not simply...
Elder Ephraim of Arizona on Trials
“If God did not consider us His children, He would not have sent us trials but would have abandoned us as we are: spiritually uneducated, without any solicitude. In...
Elder St. Porphyrios on Effectively Fighting Satan
“Satan contrives machinations of deception. Without our being aware of it, the evil one sets snares. With eager longing for Christ, the power of the soul escapes from the...
Elder Joseph of Vatopaidi on Charimas
“Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires” (Galatians 5, 22) and “no longer live for themselves but for him who...
Elder St Paisios on Gaining Treasure
“…what do you really want, appreciation from Christ or from other people? Don’t you get a greater blessing from recognition by Christ? How does it help you to have...
Elder St Paisios on Avoiding Judgement
“Man is a mystery! Every time, then, that you are asked to pass judgment on something or someone, you must stop and think, “Is this judgment a divine judgment...
St. Nikolai Velimirovich on Man’s Nature
“If some say that man has to live according to nature, we ask – which nature? According to the initial, sinless nature of paradise, the way that God created...
Metropolitan Silouan on Holiness
“The believer’s holiness is the fruit, expression and reflection of the incarnation of the Son of God. He became like us so that we may become like Him. Taking...