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You influence them
Saint Porfyrios Kavsolkalyvitis
14 August 2018
Think good things about other people. With your prayer, through Christ, you can have a beneficial effect on others. Don’t think ill of other people, because then you’re a bad influence on them.... 
We’re abandoned because of it
Abba Dorotheos
13 August 2018
Because people don’t look to their own wickedness, because they don’t weep over their dead self, they’re incapable of doing anything at all to put themselves to rights and so they’re constantly conc...
From the very start
Saint Isaac the Syrian
12 August 2018
Fasting was a commandment given to us to observe right at the beginning, but our first ancestors didn’t obey....
You expunge it
Abba Pimen
11 August 2018
People need humility and the fear of God more than the breath they take. Two wrongs don’t make a right, so if anyone does you harm, respond with a good action and in that way you’ll cancel out their...
The newspapers in heaven
Saint Amfilokhios Makris
10 August 2018
Heaven’s newspapers write everything that happens here, all the good and the bad. Believers should be simple in their actions and pure in their thoughts and feelings. They should seek God with a pur...
It’s our duty
Saint Gregory the Theologian
9 August 2018
People aren’t worth less than an animal which, according to the law, if it falls into a ditch, you have to pull out and look after (Deut. 22, 1-4). So how kind should we be to our fellow human being...
All will be well
Elder Amvrosios Lazaris
8 August 2018
Christ is here! Why don’t you believe? Believe and everything will be fine. Just believe. Wait. Don’t be afraid. God’s Grace is protecting you. Wait. Ask the Lord for love. All the virtues are hidde...
They’re not worth crying over
Elder Iosif Vatopaidinos
7 August 2018
When we speak to people today, about mourning, it seems strange to them, because they think it shameful to cry. Of course, when we’re dealing with passing, vain matters, it is indeed not worth cryin...
