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Nothing Can Overcome the Power of Prayer

Let us be humble before God and thus, attract Him towards us. Great is the power of prayer, and greatly valued by God.
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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…
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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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Make the Gospel a Custom in Your Life

Read the Gospel, allow its light penetrate your heart, make it a custom in your life. Filter any deeds or problems through the light of the Gospel’s teaching. This is the only light of our life.
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Lord, Show Me My Heart!

Through this finding the publican saved his soul as well. When you have reached this point the Holy Spirit will lead you forward, in front of God’s love.
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We Need to Have the Courage to Be Ourselves

Nun, I love colours and I love beautiful and elegant clothes, but I feel embarrassed when I see around me, in the church, women with old clothes, but I wouldn’t feel comfortable to be like them. What…
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We Need to Have the Courage to Be Ourselves

Nun, I love colours and I love beautiful and elegant clothes, but I feel embarrassed when I see around me, in the church, women with old clothes, but I wouldn’t feel comfortable to be like them. What…
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When Do We Pray Correctly?

Prayer is “the catapult” against demons, passions, sin and in general against everything that is opposed to the path of salvation.
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Wake Your Soul Up!

What state of the soul generates prayer, obedience, humbleness and protecting of faith? What is the virtue that makes us be alive and that we always must treasure? Watchfulness is the foundation of…
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Don’t Think Highly of Yourself

If you are fought by anger, maybe because you were insulted by someone who challenged you to insult back even more fiercely than they did, look down to the ground and remember you were fashioned of…
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The Will of God Does Not Follow Human Reasoning

God’s will does not uncover itself magically, is not relative and does not fit into the limited borders of human reasoning.
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Fighting Thoughts – Past as Fault, Future as Fear, Sin as Constant Temptation

The devil, in order to trouble you, sends you all sorts of thoughts. About past, future, present, about the sins that you did or could do, through dreams or visions that may seem to be “from God.”
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Haste to Your Spiritual Father and You Will Win the Heaven

God bestowed us the Gospel and wishes that we follow its word, but He also teaches us through His grace.
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Fasting Is the Crown of Those Who Refrain Themselves

Fasting protects all virtues. It is the beginning of spiritual struggle, the crown of those who refrain themselves, the beauty of virginity and purity, the brilliance of wisdom, the beginning of the…
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Be as the Bee

The bee does not collect honey from a single flower. This is also the case of the person who reads the books of the holy fathers.
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Seek God in Your Heart, Not outside of It

Seek God every day in your heart, not outside of it. But in order to find God, be humble, because He despises the proud ones and loves those humble 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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Function and social position are evanescent, kindness is forever

The ruler is the same as the rest, the same dust and ashes, he is not superior to the rest of people through nothing except the evanescent honour of his dominion. This is why you should not trade…
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Three Reasons Why Your Prayer Will Not Be Listened

Consider a great joy my brethren when you encounter various temptations knowing that the test of your faith will give birth to patience.
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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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