“A good grape-picker, who eats the ripe grapes, will not start gathering unripe ones. A charitable and sensible mind takes...
Wisdom from the Fathers
“An angel fell from Heaven without any other passion except pride, and so we may ask whether it is possible...
“Let your prayer be completely simple. For both, the publican and the prodigal son were reconciled to God by a...
“Blessed is the one who farms fair and good thoughts each day and by hope conquers the wicked passion of...
Now being exiled in our own homes let us draw from the words of St. John Abbot of Sinai. Translation:...
IT IS NOT JOY OF THE SPIRIT ALONE THAT MANIFESTS OUR LOVE OF GOD; UNFLINCHING COURAGE, STAUNCHLY MAINTAINED THROUGH LONG...
St. John of Kronstadt: . . . Christ taught us truth; the Devil teaches us falsehood, and strives in every...
“Can you place your hope in the world? Whom has it not deceived? To whom has it not lied? It...
At today's vespers, I was impressed by a part of a passage that is often read at celebrated saints' vespers...
