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Know that All that You Have Received from God, Was Given as a Loan

Buy yourself rest with struggle, the unseen face of God with watchfulness, the delight of eternal goods through fasting and thirst. Keep in your head your mind and knowledge; in your eyes the look of…
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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…
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You May Drink, But In Moderation!

Flee drunkenness as not to fall in the sin of fornication. God created wine for us, but for the joy of the heart and not for drunkenness.
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How can we stay in God?

To be, with capital letters refers this time to be in God! To be willing to erect as an endless column towards God’s heart!
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Do not spend the Day without Prayer, for You Will Be Vulnerable

Do not leave your mind free so that it be kept busy with prayer or contemplation because otherwise, the enemy uses all his power in order to destroy your watchfulness. Say this prayer: “Lord Jesus…
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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…
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Those Who Love God Shine Among Others

Light cannot hide in the darkness, sooner or later, the love of God will be uncovered on their face, in their look filled with kindness and humbleness, on their lips through the glory they bring God…
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Good Jesus, Come in the Chamber of my Heart!

Father, I am waiting in front of the gate of my soul waiting for you to enter as a Ruler in the chamber of my sinful heart. Come, Good Jesus, in the temple of my heart and bring me the joy and hope…
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Letter to Your Heart

May I turn on the lights in your soul? I want to see all your wounds and cure them. I do not want to step on them and hurt you even more. It is cold in here, light the fire of love! Your heart is a…
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Temptations Attack from Outside and Inside

From the inside, that is from the heart come all our sins. For Christ has said to the Apostles: “Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man” because it would mean to wash your hands “but that…
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The Might of the People Who Fear God

Those who fear God are as a giant among dwarfs or as a lion roaring among dogs and foxes, entrusting their faith in the Lord.
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God Suffers With Those Who Suffer

When I was in prison and I saw people who died in prayer, people who were suffering and prayed for those who made them suffer, people who were in prison together with their children and their parents…
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Why Is Repentance so Bitter?

This living faith in the existence of life after death has inspired numerous martyrs in the first centuries of Christianity and has transformed death into joy, despite its terrible torments.
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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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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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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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‘God, Do Not Leave Me!’

Jesus’ name is sweet when summoned, it casts out demons and brings angels back, and makes the heart and mind to be gentle with others. But if you are not there yet, follow the rule of prayer in the…
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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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Mind How You Behave with One’s Heart

Love the sinners, but hate their sin, lest you fall into temptation as they did. Remember that you are also an earthling and do well to everyone.
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Spiritual peace – why some have it and others don’t

Money, fortune and all pleasure cannot give you peace and true joy, because they don’t offer anything to the soul. The peace of the soul can be brought only by its Creator. The true peace can be…
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