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Being indifferent towards the enemy
Saint Porfyrios Kavsolkalyvitis
15 March 2019
Being indifferent towards the enemy is a great art: the art of arts. And it comes about only by divine Grace.
Opposing evil by the Grace of God is achieved bloodlessly and painlessly, without pushi... 
An absurd form of disdain
Saint Gregory the Theologian
14 March 2019
When people extracted gold, silver and precious stones from the earth, and when they’d made more soft clothes than they needed, and when they’d got a lot of other such things, which are the causes of ...
The Meaning of Christian Asceticism (1)
Metropolitan Symeon of Nea Smyrni
14 March 2019
As Christians, we’re always striving. The Christian life is a continual, ceaseless struggle. But the period of Great Lent, as a time of preparation for the celebration of Easter, the greatest feast, r...
The wrath of God
Saint Maximos the Confessor
13 March 2019
The wrath of God is a painful sensation for those whom He chastises. And it becomes a painful sensation when unwished for thoughts come, through which God often directs the mind which has become puffe...
The Question of Evil (2)
Fr. Dumitru Stăniloae
13 March 2019
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. And often enough it’s the tares that win out in the end. The higher we rise above the ordinary sins of most people, the more we feel tempted to make gods of ourselves because of our ...
The way to peace
Saint Nikodimos the Athonite
12 March 2019
The way to acquire peace is as follows: forget entirely your fall and the sin and give yourself over to the thought of God’s great and ineffable goodness and the fact that He is willing and desires to...
