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The will of the heart
Saint Theophan the Recluse
16 October 2018
If you are purified from the passions, then you can leave your heart freely to its will.
But the more active its passions are, if you leave your heart to its will, it’ll condemn itself to general ins... 
The span of a raven
Saint Nicholas Velimirovich
15 October 2018
God didn't send us to earth so that we could live comfortably but for us to prepare for the eternal life that awaits us.
Just think what a terrible tragedy it would be if our Maker and Creator couldn...
Energy and personality in the theology of John Meyendorf and in contemporary philosophy
Sergey Horujy, Academician
15 October 2018
Contemporary man… should be more receptive to the basic positions of Byzantine thought, which may then acquire an astonishingly contemporary relevance.
Fr. John Meyendorff
Many ideas and po...
The path of life
Elder Ephraim in Arizona †
14 October 2018
The path of life is all pain and tears, all thorns and nails.
Crosses spring up everywhere, there’s stress and sorrow all around. Every step’s a Gethsemane, every hill’s a Golgotha, every moment a sp...
The Truth of the Faith as a Struggle for Life
Metropolitan Ieronymos of Larisa and Tyrnavos
14 October 2018
People today, who are indifferent towards so many things, are also indifferent to matters of the faith. Naturally, some sociologists and anthropologists are not slow to interpret this phenomenon as ‘t...
Always remember
Saint John of Kronstadt
13 October 2018
You have to know and always remember that you’re a fallen person.
And since you fell through your reason and your free will, you have to rise from your fall through the same weapons, illumined by the...
Holy humility
Saint Porfyrios Kavsolkalyvitis
12 October 2018
People who are humble are cognizant of their inner state and however bad it is, don’t lose their personality.
They know they’re sinners and they mourn over it, but they don’t despair, they don’t exha...
