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Being Close to God You Are Far From Problems

Oh, how come that people do not know that sorrows and worries are sent to us for this same purpose, that of coming closer to God!
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God Accepts Our Prayers Only If They Help Us

He throws away useless requests, and the ones in truth and Spirit, which are good and liked by God, He arranges them in a beautiful bouquet and puts them on His altar, in front of His throne.
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Through Patience We Feel God’s Power

The more willing you are to endure sorrow, the more your effort will margin its power.
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I Am Afraid to Meet Other People

We are scared to meet ourselves, God and other people, we fear to meet others because meeting someone means meeting once and for all. Meeting people puts pressure and responsibilities under our…
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Silence Is Communication Too

Those who speak a lot, never stopping to think about what they say fall into a superficial conversation.
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“The Evil Man Makes Everyone Bitter”

Both kindness and evilness have a radiant power.
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Say a Short Prayer but Never Quit Praying

Once you get accustomed to pray while breathing you can pray anytime.  Even if it is a short prayer at least you pray. Even when you work or cook, you sit on a chair and say “Lord…”
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God, Give Me Joy!

We do need joy, as for this reason we were created by God. But spiritual joy is not same as the joy of this world. True spiritual joy means having a free heart, filled with the peace of Jesus. We…
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If We Ask, God Will Help Us

Miracles were bestowed upon many sinners, and returned to the path of the Truth, of salvation. Thus, what shall we do? We will all write letters to Heaven? Yes we will. As every Christian did since…
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Seek the Lord While You’re Still on This World

Every Christian who wants to achieve salvation of his soul through eternal struggle and to chant along with the angels and Saints in the Kingdom of Heaven should seek for God.
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People That Never Die

I find the expression “dead man” unsuitable.
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Good Deeds Without Humbleness Are of No Use!

Humbleness is as useful as the salt added in food, and can overcome the power of many sins. And if we do achieve it, we will become sons of God, allowing us to sit next to Him, even if we didn’t do…
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Prepare Yourself for the Coming Sorrow

You shall seek for allies before starting a war and before getting ill, seek for the remedy. Before being overcome by trouble you shall pray to God and then you will have Him as an ally. Call Him and…
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What Is Our Reward for Enduring Temptation?

Temptation uses everyone. Because if it uses Paul, guilty shall be the world before God. Strugglers are tempted to multiply their fortune, lazy people to remain unharmed, and those who sleep to…
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Orphans Do Have a Mother

Through our mothers we all have a precious treasure, of unmatched value in this world. Those who have lost their mothers at a young age are condemned to sorrow, feeling an empty space in their heart…
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What Is the Use of so Much Pain?

When a doctor makes a surgical intervention and the patient, because of the pain, reacts and tears off all the bandages and hits the doctor, what will he say? That he didn’t do the surgery in order…
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When You Are in Deep Sorrow, Kneel and Ask God to Fulfil His Will

When you are in a deep sorrow, a spiritual, economical struggle, either you suffer from an illness or any other thing, kneel and pray, asking God to fulfil his will and not yours. And God, who…
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How to control your thoughts while praying?

According to Father Porphyries all these thoughts that come into our mind while praying are like planes. First, you can hear them in the distance, as a background noise, and gradually the noise…
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Nothing else can quench the thirst of living water

We want to take a sip from the water of Christianity and never be thirsty again, to never have to go to the well again and to know the truth in Jesus Christ.
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Illness and suffering are God’s “medicine”

For instance, a young man will think “I am great and strong and there is no one greater than I am.” And he looks at his awards, sees that he is beautiful and healthy and the rest. But when he is ill…
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