Archimandrite Seraphim Alexiev

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When We Forget God We Make the First Step Toward the Abyss

Then, all spiritual things are overlooked, the heart gets gradually colder and the sense of the spiritual stops. The heart has no more feelings. When this happens, sadness and carefree appear.
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If we do not hear ourselves during prayer, why do we ask God to hear us?

Those who speak words of prayer automatically and with their mind completely scattered won’t receive from God the gifts they ask. For, when they are asked what they prayed for, they do not remember…
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He who sows slander collects judgement

You will not be able to collect any words that you scatter every moment through your tongue, nor turn back your bad speech and the gossip on your neighbours.
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When we chat, it is not just the time that we are losing

Wisdom lies not in the fact of not speaking, but in that of knowing when to talk. In the science of knowing to be silent and to speak!
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How can we cure the cold hearted prayer?

If our prayer is cold, it doesn’t mean God doesn’t like it. Sometimes, this type of prayer is considered to be a form of asceticism, if the man is humble in front of God.
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Two words that bring the man closer to God

This short prayer only has three words but is so strong that destroys all evil plans as soon as we say it. God left to us the prayer as one of the easiest way of salvation. In His holy glory, 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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