Daily Spiritual Messages

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The most important issue is that of judging others. We should be very wary of that. In other words, the most difficult hob we have to get through will be that of passing judgment on others.

Abbess Makrina, Holy Monastery of Our Lady the Guide, Portaria

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Your hands should not be stretched to gather, preferably they must be stretched to give.

Abbe Chome (Gerontikon)

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It is of our interest to live as beggars, as long as we are together with Jesus. Because whoever is with Jesus is rich, even if in material goods he is poor.

Mother Eugenia (Gerontikon)

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You have to know and always remember that you’re a fallen person. And since you fell through your reason and your free will, you have to rise from your fall through the same weapons, illumined by the light of the Word of God and strengthened with the Grace of the Holy Spirit in Christ Jesus.

Saint John of Kronstadt

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God didn’t send us to earth so that we could live comfortably but for us to prepare for the eternal life that awaits us. Just think what a terrible tragedy it would be if our Maker and Creator couldn’t offer us anything better, more luminous and more protracted than this life on earth, which has the stench of decline and death and lasts less than the span of a raven!

Saint Nicholas Velimirovich

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If you are purified from the passions, then you can leave your heart freely to its will. But the more active its passions are, if you leave your heart to its will, it’ll condemn itself to general instability and insecurity.

Saint Theophan the Recluse

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As the image of God, people should be self-aware, free and in control of themselves, because if awareness is taken away from them, they become unfree and are ruled by others.

Saint Nectarios of Pentapolis

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Before you listen to the other you should not answer. "When the word is answered before you listen, it is a foolishness for you and a disgrace" (Proverbs 13: 13).

Saint Seraphim of Sarov

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The supposedly ‘pious’ parents, whose concern was to make their children into ‘good Christians’, oppressed them through their human love and achieved the opposite to what they wanted. Children are pressed when they’re little and then, when they become sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, they go off in a different direction.

Saint Porphyrios of Kavsokalyvia

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The struggle is relentless and continuous, external and internal. Sometimes, the enemy acts visibly, through people and things, and at others he attacks people invisibly, through their thoughts. On occasion, he’ll appear openly, with a violent and merciless attack, like an enemy, but at others he’ll be disguised as a friend, who flatters and leads you astray with his cunning.

Saint Nicholas Velimirovich