We benefit greatly from our illnesses, as long as we endure them without complaint and glorify God, asking for His mercy. Saint...

The contemporary debate concerning physician-assisted suicide is predicated, from the traditional Christian standpoint, first, on a...

When you are forgotten, or neglected and you don't hurt with the insult, but your heart is happy - that is dying to self. Orthodox Africa...

Then don't expect to ascend. Whoever does not endure sufferings should not expect grace from Him. Elder Joseph the Hesychast When can...

No wonder then that it is hard to be a Christian. It is not hard, it is impossible. No one can knowingly accept a way of life which,...

Be at peace. Put aside all anxious thoughts and imaginations. Do not look forward in fear to those changes and struggles in life, rather...

Even if we are bedridden, we are to continue the struggle against the passions, producing fruits worthy of repentance. This work of...

Another reason why human suffering is a mystery to an unbeliever is because his very idea of God is false. Father Seraphim (Rose) Modern...

I have no fear. Because I have given myself to Him, because I have surrendered myself to Him, I have no fear. I’m on my way to heaven....

Is God absent or present? Is He near at hand, or remote and withdrawn? It’s a matter of how you look at it. Elder Aimilianos of...

God never gives you a Cross without first weighing and measuring it very carefully to make sure that the Cross will result in your...

It is the age with which our true life begins. A man should not despair, no matter how great his sins, for a man is not saved by his good...

I am just a poor ascetic, who has grown old in the wilderness, and I wanted to heal only through faith. But I, too, am learning that...

Oh, if man would only lift his mind above this earthly realm to the heavenly Jerusalem, to the inconceivable beauty of paradise where...

"...for I AM Holy..." Let us abandon ourselves in trust to the love of God When we surrender ourselves to Christ, our spiritual...

Bear your cross, and I shall bear mine, as we follow the heavenly Bridegroom, Christ, Who for us ungrateful sinners bore a Cross of...

Jesus did not come to eliminate suffering. Rather, He transformed it. He endured His Cross so that we can endure ours. By the power of...

Man is a great mystery. The human being is crowned with the glory and honor of being the very image of God. Every human being is an icon...

The Lord gave us the Holy Spirit, and the man in whom the Holy Spirit lives feels that he has paradise within him. Saint Silouan the...

Almighty God, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, come to my help and deliver me from this difficulty that besets me. I believe...