Ορθοδοξία

We have weaknesses, passions and faults deeply rooted within us, many of which are also inherited. These can’t be cut off by any spasmodic effort, nor by worrying or stressing about them, but only by patience and persistence, by endurance, by care and attention. Excessive sorrow conceals pride. This is why it’s harmful and dangerous. It’s often exacerbated by the devil to throw us off course.

Saint Nectarios of Pentapolis

Many people talk about glorification in the abstract. What’s important is that we should keep Christ’s commandments and in this way we’ll arrive at deification and the light. We’re no longer susceptible to the passions after He comes into our soul and body.

Saint Sophrony of Essex

If you pray in the morning as you should, your whole day will be blessed.

Saint Theophan the Recluse

How very, very sweet Jesus is! Full of joy, full of love, full of peace, full of serenity, full of rejoicing, full of elation. How very, very sweet Jesus is!

Elder Ephraim of Katounakia

Temptations aren’t stronger than God’s gifts. With the power of the name of Jesus, our Saviour Who gives us strength, we can do anything. If your faith’s weak, a speck of dust will seem like a mountain to you.

Starets Leon

If you need to go through a thick forest or a reed-bed, you have to use your hands to push aside the twigs, branches, bushes, all the impediments in order to forge a path and make your way forward. This is what should happen in our soul, as well, with sinful thoughts: we should push them aside and move on.

Only those who are pure can come to know the only Pure One. ‘Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God’.

Saint Justin Popovich

When people fall ill, they go to the doctor to have tests done, to diagnose their illness and to be given the appropriate medication so that they’ll recover. But the greatest sickness is sin. And the remedy is confession and repentance. We have to attend church and live within the grace of God.

Elder Ephraim of Vatopaidi

If someone does not ask for his rights, then God will enlighten somebody else to give him.

Saint Amphilochios Makris

Sometimes, people think they’re praying fervently, but, in their heart, their prayer doesn’t bear fruit, that is the peace and joy of the Holy Spirit. How is this? Because they’re praying without having genuinely repented of the sins they committed in the day that’s passed.

Saint John of Kronstadt