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Did You Speak Badly About Someone? Bless that Person!

Were you envious? Pray for the good of the person whom you envied. Confess every sin, without hiding anything, to your spiritual father or to a faithful, pious and honest abbot; keep God’s commandments and you shall save your soul.

How to Choose the Name of Your Child

Talking about names, I think that from the first hour after we have given a name to our child we should give him also the zeal of virtue.

Faith Works only by True Love

Faith without love towards your neighbour is like the earth that absorbs the rain of the heaven but holds it in without allowing it to come outside as a spring. Faith without love is like a burning log that does not produce heat. Is your love also like this?

What Do Spouses Need to Do to Have Good and Healthy Children?

Children need to be taught both by their parents and spiritual parents about the fear of God, faith, mercy, humbleness and obedience to the Holy Scripture. They need to be taught from a young age about fasting, prayer, confession and piety towards the poor and respect for all people.

What Do Spouses Need to Do to Have Good and Healthy Children?

Children need to be taught both by their parents and spiritual parents about the fear of God, faith, mercy, humbleness and obedience to the Holy Scripture.

Trusting People - a Manifestation of Faith

Have the faith that you can trust man, your brother, wife, husband, friends and relatives. What a great thing it is to be able to trust people and most of all, God!

How Can I Love God more than my Child?

In other words, here we find the palpable proof of how much we love God – by loving our brothers! But mind that this love for our brothers (children, parents, husband or wife) does not reach the level of idolatry! What does idolatry mean? To put the ones whom you love above everything, above God. God should always be on the first place.

The Thought of God Helps Us Pass through any Challenge

Inspired by the longing towards God, man is able to confront all trials. If we will not allow the flame of our heart to quench, even when God withdraws His grace from us allowing us to taste the spiritual death, we will remain still on the path leading to God.

There Is no Wiser Man than the Merciful Man

Those who are obsessed by material goods are always sad and worried because they fear to lose all of it and also their soul.

The Greatest Miracle Lived by Man

Gracious faith transports us from the land of created world to that of uncreated world, being a bridge above the abyss between God and man. And if man shows such a faith, then he will certainly will achieve the haven of love, for God is love.

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