Daily Spiritual Messages

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Avoid harmful dealings and your soul will always be very calm.

Saint Saint Ephraim the Syrian

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People who belong to the Church of Christ belong to the truth, and those who don’t belong to the truth don’t belong to the Church of Christ.

Saint Gregory Palamas

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When people are empty of Christ, a thousand and one other things come and fill them up: jealousies, hatreds, boredom, melancholy, resentment, a worldly outlook, worldly pleasures. Try to fill your soul with Christ so that it’s not empty.

Saint Porphyrios of Kavsokalyvia

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As you approach God, you are more careful, not seeking it, in all things but also in the spiritual. By looking for your soul, you become more intelligent by the divine grace.

Saint Porphyrios of Kavsokalyvia

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Christ comes lots of times and knocks at your door. You ask Him into the sitting-room of your soul and then get involved with other tasks and forget all about the great Visitor. He waits for you to appear and when a long time’s passed He gets up and leaves. Next time, you’re so busy, you answer Him from the window. You haven’t got time even to open the door to Him.

Elder Amfilokhios Makris

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The Jesus prayer gives you so much sweetness, so much joy. It’s short, but it’s got so much power. So much, that you say: ‘Even if I go to hell, I’m not afraid. I’ll just say the prayer there, as well’.

Elder Ephraim of Katounakia

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To live truly, we have to live in the way God ordained when He made us. Unless we do, we aren’t living at all.

Saint Theophan the Recluse

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Egotism is an absurd passion which is literally a scourge of humankind. We all suffer from this dread disease. Self-centred people are made ridiculous and a spectacle by their egotism. God calls upon us to fight this egotism and overcome it, to cast it off.

Elder Ephraim of Arizona

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Nobody’s infallible, especially when they’re still imperfect and full of badness. There are lots of things they don’t know, and they’re not very good at others. They lack experience and are fighting an unequal struggle, as well.

Elder Joseph of Vatopaidi

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People divorce because of their sensuality and their egotism. Nothing else. All the other reasons are invented afterwards to justify what they’ve done.

Saint Paisios the Athonite