Orthodox Quote for March 16
“If you thought of something without your mind, it is yours. However, if you thought of it with your mind, it is God’s, since your mind is a creation...
Orthodox Quote for March 15
“In all the passing moments scattered in the day, when we chose selfishness or disobey God in our conscience, the deposit of silt builds up. We put up...
Orthodox Quote for March 14
“From the moment we acknowledge that we may not have the right judgment and say, “I risk making mistakes because my judgment is simply logical and lacks divine enlightenment;...
Daily Devotional for March 14-20
Sunday Psalm 50 (David’s prayer of repentance…spread out over several nights for the start of Lent) Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the...
Orthodox Quote for March 13
“We are accustomed to the works of God, and therefore value them but little; we do not, for instance, value even man as we ought to—that greatest work and...
Orthodox Quote for March 11
“As with most everything, there are positives and negatives on why we do what we do, and monasticism is no exception. The primary reason a man or woman becomes...
Orthodox Quote for March 10
“Here is the luminous teaching of our Savior: Thy will be done. (Matt. 6:10). Whoever sincerely pronounces this prayer leaves his own will and puts all things in the...
Orthodox Quote for March 9
“We do not know all the details of the path that the Lord has set out for us, and we will never know fully. That is the way of...
Orthodox Quote for March 8
“Sin crushes a man and removes the veil of grace from his soul, from which a man suffers, becoming vulnerable to demons, the world, and vices—a man becomes a...
Orthodox Quote for March 7
“The moments of spiritual upliftment from the sin of the young prodigal are, in fact, the steps of repentance of every man who desires to change his life, to...