Words of Life
The unhappiest
Saint John of Kronstadt
31 October 2016
The more difficult, bad and sly people are, the more unhappy they feel. The...
Firm foundation
Saint Nectarios of Pentapolis
30 October 2016
Self-restraint is a powerful force and enduring wealth. It’s the foundation...
Something good will come of it
Saint Paisios the Athonite
29 October 2016
From our own mistakes and the rubble of our lives, our good God arranges fo...
For the whole person
Saint Joseph the Hesychast
28 October 2016
Labor is for the body, humility for the soul. Both together, labor and humi...
The happy and the pitiful
Saint Silouan the Athonite
27 October 2016
How fortunate we Orthodox Christians are! What a God we have! People who do...
He doesn’t reject people
Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos
26 October 2016
A young man who comes here to become a monk does so because he’s been stric...
A real sign
Saint Maximos the Confessor
25 October 2016
Patiently bearing sorrows and not blaming other people for our own disaster...
What’s a monk?
Elder Christodoulos Katounakiotis
24 October 2016
Being a monk means ‘a mind contemplating God’....
Without words
Saint Nikolaos Kavasilas
23 October 2016
If you want to teach the love of God, don’t use speech. Try to be polite,...
It’s not part of us
Saint John Chrysostom
22 October 2016
It’s entirely obvious that wickedness and evil are the result of our dispos...