☦️ In Peter | We Trust ✨✨✨📀
Love God ✨ Love Christ with all your Heart ♥️
CHRISTMAS IS A JOYOUS TIME FOR ENJOYING
THE BIRTH OF JESUS CHRIST ☦️💕💕💕💕💕
WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS.♥️
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“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 ☦️
God’s grace always assists those who struggle, but this does not mean that a struggler is always in the position of a victor. Sometimes in the arena the wild animals did not touch the righteous ones, but by no means were they all preserved untouched.
What is important is not victory or the position of a victor, but rather the labor of striving
towards God and devotion to Him.
Though a man may be found in a weak state, that does not at all mean that he has been abandoned by God. On the cross, the Lord Jesus Christ was in trouble, as the world sees things.
But when the sinful world considered Him to be completely destroyed, in fact He was victorious over death and hades. The Lord did not promise us positions as victors as a reward for righteousness, but told us,
“In the world you will have tribulation
— but be of good cheer, for I have
overcome the world” (Jn. 16:33).
The power of God is effective when a person asks for the help from God, acknowledging his own weakness and sinfulness. This is why humility and the striving towards God are the fundamental virtues of a Christian.
+ St. John Maximovitch ☦️
