On Saints…
There is an unbearable sadness in not meeting a saint; there is an even greater grief in not being a saint.
Category: Book of Crumbs
Brief thoughts for spiritual reflection and edification
On Saints…
The saints are like the Lord, but so are all people who keep the commandments of Christ; but those who live according to their own passions and do not repent ar...
On illumination…
Smoke from wood that is kindling a fire troubles the eyes; but then, the fire gives them light and gladdens them. Similarly, unceasing attentiveness is irksome;...
On Strife & Love…
High atop a monastery on Holy Mt. Athos there lived an abbot whose monastery suffered from constant gossiping and quarreling among the brother monks. A good and...
On Sin…
A brother who had sinned was turned out of the church by the priest. Abba Bessarion got up and went with him, saying, “I, too, am a sinner.” –...
On Faith…
Is it not ironic that no one gets killed when professing a theory – irrespective of how realistic it may or may not be. Yet hundreds of thousands have die...
On Holy Tradition…
Sometimes Japanese protestants come to me and ask me to clarify some place in the Holy Scriptures. “You have your own missionary teachers,” I tell t...
On Courage…
“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.” C.S. Lewis, 1898-1963 British Scholar and Novelist &#...
On Truth…
Blessed and thrice blessed are those who are considered as bronze in the eyes of others because of sinister declarations made by the ill-willed when, in truth, ...
On guarding the heart…
Do not open the door of your heart to every knock, for even the devil will seek permission to enter.