“Whatever you endure is a gold medal. To endure trials and tribulations gives you so much more than doing good deeds and you gain Paradise.” Elder Panais […]
Category: Saints and Elders – Counsels
Sayings of Saint Paisios
“The devil fell because of his pride. A dreadful thing! He was the chief Angel, and became an enemy of God, and of man. There is no one, […]
Sayings of Saint Paisios
“We ought to struggle to uproot the major passions, since by uprooting a big passion, many other small ones are uprooted.” *** “The mind of a selfless person ought […]
Useful spiritual advice
A monk went once to Elder Feleka. He was also accompanied by several individuals that were not monks. He asked the Elder to tell them something useful like […]
Dealing with Enemies
The person who doesn’t have the Spirit of God in him, can’t love his enemies. Such a person responds with violence, the Christian responds differently. Elder […]
Sayings of Saint Paisios
“When someone is irritated, it is better not to speak to him at all, unless of course you have a very good reason. His irritation resembles a […]
Sayings of Saint Paisios
“When in prayer we don’t feel joy and comfort, as does a little child who runs to its mother’s embrace, then we have either hurt someone through our conduct […]
Sayings of St. Antony the Great
About love True love does not mean only to give, but also to be deprived and to feel sorry, when such deprivation and sorrow restrain another from going astray […]
On Afflictions, Pain, and Labors
May the love of our heavenly Father be with your souls, so that being invigorated by it you may bear the fruit of obedience to His life-giving commandments. […]
Living in Christ
When we live in Christ, we feel like we are flying! We feel great joy and we have beautiful spiritual experiences. Slowly we become prisoners of the good, […]