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Stupid, false and deceptive

Saint John of Kronstadt   Sinners won’t achieve remission of their sins unless they first realize with all their heart that these are senseless, destructive and illusory. Just as they committed the sin and found it pleasant and enjoyable, so now they must repent and confess that it was deceptive Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 6 yearsJune 11, 2019 ago
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Our intellect united with our heart

Very Rev. Archimandrite Zacharias (Zacharou)   The purpose of the Christian life is for our intellect to be united with our heart, because then we’re cured. We’re made whole and we can turn to God with our whole being, fulfilling His commandments in a manner well-pleasing to Him. Source: pemptousia.com Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 6 yearsMay 17, 2019 ago
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Suffering unjustly

Saint Arsenie Boca   It’s better for you to suffer evil than to become the cause of evil. The sorrow of someone who’s suffering unjustly is preferable to the joy of someone who’s working with injustice. Source: pemptousia.com     ABOUT THE ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN NETWORK Orthodox Christian Network (OCN) is Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 6 yearsApril 10, 2019 ago
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Seek & practice virtue

Saint John of Damascus   They are truly blessed who seek virtue and practice it and examine carefully what it is. If you wish to be governed by God, don’t wish to sin. Because if you sin, how will you be governed by God? Source: pemptousia.com     ABOUT THE Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 6 yearsMarch 29, 2019 ago
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The way to peace

Saint Nicodemus the Hagiorite   The way to acquire peace is as follows: forget entirely your fall and the sin and give yourself over to the thought of God’s great and ineffable goodness and the fact that He is willing and desires to forgive every sin, however serious, inviting sinners Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 6 yearsMarch 14, 2019 ago
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Tasted and sweetened

Saint John the Sinaite   Acquisition of divine love makes us angels, immortal, incorruptible. The pure flame of love extinguishes all other desire for earthly longings. You get the impression that those who love God aren’t interested in anything else, not even nourishment, since they’ve tasted God and been sweetened Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 6 yearsMarch 12, 2019 ago
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They don’t get up again

Saint Andronik of the Monastery of Glinsk   Spend your life wisely, live purely, repent, pray not to be surprised by sudden death and God’s dread anger. Many people have lain down to sleep and not risen again. We, too, lie down and don’t know if we’ll wake the next Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 6 yearsMarch 6, 2019 ago
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Again, on sorrows and patience

Saint Dimitri of Rostov   Patience in trials is a sure way of uniting ourselves to God. Complaining separates us from God, so patience forges our union with Him. So if you suffer all your trials with patience and gratitude, for His sake, He will reward you with eternal bliss. Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 6 yearsFebruary 22, 2019 ago
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Rely on the Grace

Archimandrite Georgios Kapsanis, Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Gregoriou †   If you allow the thought that you can rely on your own powers and proceed in that vein, then pride enters. You lose what you’ve gained and you need to start again from the beginning, to humble yourself, Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 6 yearsFebruary 13, 2019 ago
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Like the starving

Saint Justin Popovich   In the first place, church attendance is a need of the soul. Just as the hungry have need of food and the thirsty require water, so, too, do Christians have need of their ‘daily bread, which is the word of God and the spotless sacraments, the Read more…

By Pemptousia Partnership, 6 yearsJanuary 31, 2019 ago

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