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Our times, above all, call for humble and quiet labors, with love and sympathy for other strugglers on the path of the Orthodox spiritual life and a deep resolve that does not become discouraged because the atmosphere is unfavorable. We Christians of the latter times are still called to work persistently on ourselves, to be obedient to spiritual fathers and authorities, to lead an orderly life with at least a minimum of spiritual discipline and with regular reading of the Orthodox spiritual literature which Blessed Paisius was chiefly responsible for handing down to our times, to watch over our own sins and failings and not judge others. If we do this, even in our terrible times, we may have hope,
in God’s mercy,
of the salvation of our souls. 💒
Fr. Seraphim Rose,
of Blessed Memory. ☦️
Prayer needs no teacher.
It requires diligence, effort and personal ardor,
and then God will be its teacher."
- St. Meletius the Confessor 🙏🏽📖🙏🏽
“Worldly stress is the result of worldly happiness, of worldly pleasures and self-indulgence. Educated externally and being full of anxiety, hundreds of people (even young children)
are driven to psychoanalysis and psychiatrists.
New psychiatric hospitals are being built and young psychiatrists go on for
post-graduate studies.
Many of them do not even believe in God or accept the existence of the soul.
How can these people help the human soul when they themselves are full of anxiety?
How can one feel truly comforted if he does not believe in God and in the true and
eternal life after death?
When man grasps the deeper meaning of this true life, stress goes away, divine consolation
comes and he is healed.
The answer to our anxiety is not drugs, alcohol, tranquilizers or psychiatric treatment.
It will not be cured by Yoga or some new age or eastern meditation practice.
The problem is that we have lost God as the center of our lives. Once we make our love of God the primary focus of our lives and allow His grace to work though us, then no matter what circumstance we encounter in life we will be comforted and embraced in His love.
All anxiety disappears.🥊
This is the aim of the Orthodox way of life.
To put God first and seek the Holy Spirit.
The anxieties of modern life are only symptoms of our separation from God.”
+ Saint Paisios of Mt Athos ☦️🙏🏽💒☦️
“Every man of himself is so insignificant and helpless that he receives everything necessary to support his existence, not from himself, but from without; he himself is nothing. And as his body is supported by air, food, and drink, so his soul is supported by prayer, by reading God’s Word, and by the communion of the Holy Mysteries.”
Every man on earth is sick with the fever of sin, with the blindness of sin and is overcome with its fury. As sins consist mostly of malice and pride, it is necessary to treat everyone who suffers from the malady of sin with kindness and love. This is an important truth, which we often forget. Very often we act in the opposite manner: we add malice to malice by our anger, we oppose pride with pride. Thus, evil grows within us and does not decrease; it is not cured - rather it spreads.
+ Saint John the Wonderworker of Kronstadt ☦️
“Be careful with your mouth, but primarily with your mind; do not let evil thoughts start talking to you. Do not let your mouth say words that could perhaps wound your brother. Let your mouth put forth words which are fragrant: words of consolation, courage and hope. It is a person's mouth that reveals his interior, inner man. “
+ Elder Ephraim of Arizona ☦️
A Christian without a cross and a struggle is not meant. A Christian who follows an
easy path is not meant.
Some have thought and still think that it is Christian to keep some moral precepts and to have a human well-being and to have a humanly secure life. But he is not this Christian. A Christian is one who struggles to love God.
He fights to love his brother.
- Elder George Kapsanis ☦️
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