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How can you get over grievance?

There are two things in particular that you cannot do without faith in God: to endure a great pain and raise good children.
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Speak with God anywhere, anytime!

The most beautiful and powerful prayer is the one that all day, since morning till sunset, all your life, from cradle to grave you live it in connection with the life-giving Source: Jesus the Saviour…
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Let’s pray one for the other!

Let’s mention in our prayers the living, the dead, our friends and enemies and all those who deserve our prayer: parents, brothers, benefactors, leaders of the world and church, those who helped us…
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Oh, what a sweet support is our Lord!

All treasures, all pleasures of this world cannot offer the peace, serenity and joy that our Lord gives to those that put their lives into His hands.
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Don’t seek for reward and it will come on its own

Although others rightly consider themselves eagles, even if you have the power and the wings of an eagle as well, you should settle being a little merry lark flying upright heralding the dawn.
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Put your future in the hands of God’s will!

Neither a stone can be moved nor can a leaf fall without the will of God.
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A healthy mind has a beautiful thinking

Before the evil gets into your mind, cast it out through Jesus’s prayer! Don’t let the evil thoughts enter your mind!
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Never give up; fight!

Even if you are in Bucharest, or in a remote village, Christ is the same everywhere. God knows beforehand what you need, but he wants you to fight. Don’t give up, don’t leave your life for the…
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Don’t seek for power, and God will give it to you!

Those who’ve lost power of their own soul, how can they reign over the others? Don’t seek for power, and God will give it to you, be the master of your own sins, and when time will come, He will give…
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Prepare your soul for eternity, don’t leave it for tomorrow

Sit and wonder whether you loved justice and hated transgression as something ugly, pointless, that keeps you away from God and leads you into perdition.
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Where is love, there is endurance

Purifying love
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The innocent forgives the guilty

Not the guilty forgives the innocent, because he no longer thinks reasonably. But you, which are innocent, should forgive the guilty and ask for his forgiveness. 
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Saint Luke the Surgeon and Saint Ephraim in the Operating Room

”In 2004, I was operated on for a brain tumor. After three and a half years, it appeared again. I visited plenty of doctors, but none would agree to operate on me. I was very depressed and…
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The Will of God

We must always pray, so that the Lord will tell us what we must do, and the Lord will not leave us in confusion. Adam was unwise not to ask the Lord about the fruit brought to him by Eve, and so lost…
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The Challenge of Raising Children in the 21st Century

Orthodox Christian parents cannot afford to be wimps. We need to take the authority of an abbot in our little monasteries, providing our children with spiritual formation bathed in the tradition of…
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“You should go light a big candle!”

“My Saint Ephraim, I don’t know who you are. It is the first time I’ve heard your name…” I entreated him with a lot of faith, me the sinner, to make my husband well. After two hours, as I was in…
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The Authenticity of Orthodoxy in a Post-Modern World

Orthodox Christians in America are living in a very challenging era, yet at the same time are living in the most exciting age of the Church. Americans have been blessed with the appearance of the…
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