Words of Life
The right way
Saint Theophan the Recluse
11 May 2016
People who preserve the experience of painful contrition before the Lord in...
Our purpose
Tadej Vitovnički
10 May 2016
The strong faith of the human heart demands prayer and, at the same time, p...
Terrible cruelty
Saint Ignatios Brianchaninoff
9 May 2016
People who reject repentance are showing terrible cruelty towards themselve...
What’s not there starts to exist
Saint Diadokhos of Fotiki
8 May 2016
Evil has no natural existence and no-one is evil by nature. Because God did...
It blights everything good
Saint Nectarios of Pentapolis
7 May 2016
Misguided zeal is the turbulence of a malicious soul and reveals itself as ...
A land thirsting for rain
Saint Ephraim the Syrian
6 May 2016
A sign of the soul that's indifferent is that it doesn't listen gladly to H...
It doesn’t poison it
Saint Theophan the Recluse
5 May 2016
Some people erroneously think that the memento mori, the remembrance of dea...
The dread poison
Saint John of Kronstadt
4 May 2016
The heavy, soul-destroying burden of the heart will flee quickly. You'll fe...
Be patient when someone’s upset.
Saint Abba Dorotheos
3 May 2016
Let's suppose that you can't be merciful through your speech. What you can ...
Whatever you can do
Saint Ignatios Brianchaninoff
2 May 2016
People who seek Christian perfection renounce all their possessions. And th...