Wealthy and lacking God

5 July 2019

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When it’s not distributed to the poor for the good of our souls and the benefit of our departed ones, wealth is a total disaster. Riches choke the soul, through great anxiety and rapacity.

When we see people who have got everything, who want for nothing, but yet are anxious, worried and sad, we should recognize that they’re lacking God…

» Venerable Païsios the Athonite

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