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The image of God

We may say that any faculty of the human spirit (intelligence, freedom, love, creation) reflect the image of God. 
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How should you act with those who lie but accuse you of not trusting them?

Accept what they say without believing them, without judging them, without saying anything. Just pray “Lord have mercy, make her (him) understand that what he says is not true”. But do this without…
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It’s not good for man to be alone

 “Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created” (Genesis 5:2).
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Let us run from everything that troubles our mind

Causes of sin are: wine, women, wealth and the health of the body. Not that they are sins by nature, but they make that the nature easily incline towards sinful passions.
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While we are alive, we can still make right our wrong deeds from the book of life

And as long as we have power over our book of life, written with our own hands, let us compel to write in it good things and remove the sins, the ones made in the previous life. While in this world,…
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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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Why some people are loved by everyone?

The humble one is never hated, is not hurt by words or despised. But because he loves his Lord, he is loved by all. He loves everyone, and everyone loves him.
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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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The two types of saving love

When a man doesn’t have longsuffering, kindness, this indicates that it does not have love inside him. Again, when he is not able to bear for long, has no kindness or generosity in all aspects he is…
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In case of illness one needs both medication and prayer

‘I, a poor hermit, grew old in the wilderness and I wanted to become healthy again only by faith. But now I’ve learned that there is need for both medicine and Grace.’
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Behind every pain there is a blessing

Pain is a bad thing, but behind it, behind the suffering and the test lies the blessing of God, the rebirth and the refashion of man and of family. Almost everyone owes their return to this aspect.…
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A woman’s duties towards her husband

To maintain Christian piety in the house, to pray to God at night…
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Spouses that pray together stay together

By mutual communion, by mutual participation in the life of the Church, at its sacraments and prayers, marriage becomes not only a bodily and spiritual union, but also a sacramental one. This is why…
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Love – the only power that can scatter man’s loneliness

Without a living love, people are as the dead dust ... But true friendship shatters this solitude, overcomes it and frees the man in order to reach the constructive and living love. True friendship…
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Pray in the early morning

Morning prayer is for man what morning dew is for plants.
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The dark side of our imagination

St. Hesychius of Sinai teaches that imagination was the main cause of man’s fall: ‘And so it separated Adam from God, giving him visions of divine dignity. And so the liar and cunning enemy tends to…
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The Mother of God, hope of the hopeless!

Do not doubt that, hearing your anguished cries, she will come to you, wipe away your tears, alleviate your suffering and deliver you from distress, destruction, sorrow and despair.
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Man is not saved without a wilful struggle

The seed does not grow without water or earth and man is not saved without wilful struggles. Like rain does not fall without clouds, neither man cannot be pleasing to God and be saved without a clean…
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Prayer - Fight for Salvation

Our guardian angel is always saying to us “Pray and watch incessantly! Keep and fructify through prayer what you have conquered!”  In a moment of spiritual zeal you may embrace the height of…
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