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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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Through Sorrows We Achieve Salvation

Endure with patience all illness and sorrow that were bestowed upon you, so that you may remain on the right path.
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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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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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Suffering – The School of Life

Suffering is a wonderful school through which God talks to the believer in a wonderful language. Suffering is, for the life of the believer, a cloud from which in the end drops of a blessed rain will…
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What Happens With Those Who Do Not Pray?

People who do not pray have no power in the struggle against the temptations in life. They are like a soldier without weapons, as a bird without wings, a willow in the wind that does not seek God.
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“The Evil Man Makes Everyone Bitter”

Both kindness and evilness have a radiant power.
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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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Prepare Yourself for the Coming Sorrow

You shall seek for allies before starting a war and before getting ill, seek for the remedy. Before being overcome by trouble you shall pray to God and then you will have Him as an ally. Call Him and…
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What Is Our Reward for Enduring Temptation?

Temptation uses everyone. Because if it uses Paul, guilty shall be the world before God. Strugglers are tempted to multiply their fortune, lazy people to remain unharmed, and those who sleep to…
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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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When You Are in Deep Sorrow, Kneel and Ask God to Fulfil His Will

When you are in a deep sorrow, a spiritual, economical struggle, either you suffer from an illness or any other thing, kneel and pray, asking God to fulfil his will and not yours. And God, who…
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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.
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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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Does God help kind people but who do not believe in Him?

God has left us all a legacy, and this is why all people are good in their heart. But the devil ruins everything. Some have kept this kindness, even if they do not live in the bosom of the Church.…
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The trap of ‘trial marriage’

The mutilated life of their parents scare the children and they try not to repeat their parents’ sad experience. To this effect, they invented the following scheme: ‘We try and if we succeed in…
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Can we do harm even when we only want to help?

If he gives you his arm and you cannot pull him out, he will drag you down and both of you will die. 
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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…
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God wants us to talk to Him as much as possible

We as Christians should always pray to God, anytime, anywhere. And even if our wishes are fulfilled or not, we should still thank Him. Sometimes He listens, sometimes He doesn’t, because He knows…
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If it’s useful for your salvation, God will allow for your marriage as well!

If this proposal to marriage will be useful for you, God will send His help and blessing, and if it isn’t then through His judgement he will undo this plan. Being at God’s mercy, at not seeking to…
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