Daily Spiritual Messages

[Νίκος]

The more deeply we feel our sin as a mortal wound, the more fully we fall down before God in grief-stricken prayer. This prayer sometimes liberates us from the bonds of space and time, so that we feel ourselves to be different.

Elder Joseph of Vatopaidi

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Alas, many people distance themselves from God by making use of the very freedom He Himself gave them, as well as the choice they can make to be good or bad people. And when they fall into sin, they tend more easily towards the bad rather than the good.

Saint John of Kronstadt

[Νίκος]

When we listen to the Holy Synod of the Saints: "On the same day memory of the Saint...". we must stand in attention, as the soldiers stand in attention, when the names of their heroically fallen colleges are read.

Saint Paisios of Mount Athos

[Νίκος]

Patience is a virtue so long as it exists as the fruit of hope in God. Sorrow leads to patience, patience to a tried and tested character and a tried and tested character to hope. And, in the end, hope doesn’t disappoint. Patience is the first of the virtues, since salvation is crowned with it.

Σaint Nectarios of Pentapolis

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Some Christians, either through their own fault or that of others find themselves trapped in the sickness of guilt, and a lot of secular people suffer from a worse illness: pride. Now spiritual guilt is dissipated through Christ and repentance, at confession. But the pride of people living ‘in the world’’, far from Christ, doesn’t disappear.

Saint Porphyrios of Kavsokalyvia

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Your life on earth is tapering off. Everything betrays you: relatives, friends, acquaintances, riches, things pleasing to the senses, even your body itself will at some stage abandon you. All the elements of nature deceive you. So make sure you cleave to God, because He alone is love.

Saint John of Kronstadt

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The most acceptable form of repentance, according to the Fathers, is fervent tears which well up from the pain of the heart that feels its obnoxious guilt and its betrayal of God’s paternal love.

Elder Joseph of Vatopaidi

[Νίκος]

He who struggles for a long time and does not see spiritual progress, has pride and selfishness. Spiritual progress exists where there is sincere humility.

Saint Paisios of Mount Athos

[Νίκος]

If your tongue’s like a sharp sword, then you can use it to murder people. It’s what we often do, without thinking that we’re killers. We wound our neighbour’s heart with slander and lies, we insult their human dignity and we agitate their hearts with malicious talk. Is that not spiritual assassination?

Saint Luke the Doctor

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Love for your enemies isn’t possible except by the Grace of the Holy Spirit.

Saint Silouan the Athonite