struggle
 

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 God; under your feet the ground where you shall return; in your ears the teachings of the Bible.

“Repentance and Humbleness Complete the Deeds you Have Not done” – Father Ilie Cleopa

For instance you do prostrations. When I was young I would compete with my brothers and see who can do more prostrations in an hour. I could do 500, but now I can’t do even one.

Why Can’t I Feel God’s Love?

Cheap love seeks profit and Christians in this situation enjoy the world to the limit of their damnation.

Difficult Times Are Coming

God allows a great shake. Difficult times are coming. We will be put to difficult tests… We shall take everything seriously and adopt a spiritual way of living. The context forces and will force us to live spiritually. And it is preferable to do it with joy and good will and not out of necessity. Many Saints would have wished to live in our times so they may achieve salvation.

We can always talk to God

We should remain calm, we should not lose our temper, but get accustomed with prayer from an early stage, to turn our eyes and soul to God, because help will come from Him.

What Is True Repentance?

The repentance of those who think that through a day of fast they will redeem the sin of their repeated intoxication with food and alcohol will be in vain!

In search for the peace of mind and heart?

Nobody can achieve peace and spiritual serenity without fighting temptation and patiently enduring sorrow. The truth is that God did the same before He died on the Cross. He was mocked, humiliated and tortured. He very carefully built a model for us to follow. He created an image of His life on earth that we should struggle to follow.

Don’t work without prayer!

There’s no other treasure more honest than prayer in our lives. This is why you should never let it aside, but as our Lord said, pray so that our struggle will not be in vain.

Oh, Heaven, how beautiful you are!

What does Heaven represent? It is a place with unfaded flowers, filled with spiritual fragrances, it is the angels’ joy, the Easter life, divine love, ceaseless prayer raised to God and an eternal life! Thus, how hard we should fight for it, but how small is our effort!

God appreciates more the effort than the result

There all appreciated by God in His divine way – not a human one – for God rewards your struggle and not the deed and its result.

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