Cowardice
If you pursue virtue in a monastery or community, you are not likely to be attacked much by fear. But the man who spends his time in more solitary places should...
Category: Saints
All saints are saints despite their humanity…
It’s What I’ve Said Before
Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brother Karamazov, pages 48-49 Richard Pevear, (Translator), Larissa Volokhonsky, (Translator) Yes, it’s clearly what I have said b...
A Lie
A lie is a delusion of the mind, while evil is a delusion of the will. The sign by which one is distinguished from the other is the judgment of God Himself … th...
Romans 8:28
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. – Romans 8:28 When Job lost...
St Seraphim of Sarov
One must not judge anyone, although with one’s own eyes one may see someone sin or wallow in transgression of the commandments of God; according to the word of ...
St. Paisius Velichkovsky
Do not say that one or two books are sufficient for instructing the soul. After all, even the bee collects honey not from one or two flowers only, but from many...
Elder Sophrony of Essex
Often the Holy Spirit withdraws from us because of one or another impulse of our heart, or perhaps a thought. But this withdrawal may occur because the Spirit s...
St Nikolai of Zica
Come closer to me, closer still, O majestic Son of God. Descend deeper into my heart than any emotion, or desire, or passion of the world can descend into it. P...
A List of the Passions
A LIST OF THE PASSIONS by Saint Peter of Damaskos The passions are: harshness, trickery, malice, perversity, mindlessness, licentiousness, enticement, dullness,...
St Moses the Black
“Once the Fathers of the Scetis were holding a council to reprimand a monk who had committed a fault. St. Moses was invited, but he refused to attend. The pries...