If you wish, you can be a slave of the passions, and if you wish, you can remain free, and choose not to submit to their soul crushing...

Now is the time. Let your Light shine. I reflected upon the day my life will end and I groaned when I saw the multitude of my...

Blessed is he, who like a courageous warrior defending heavenly treasures, preserves his soul and body without reproach in the Lord. Holy...

We must be prepared to accept the will of God. The Lord permits all sorts of things to happen to us contrary to our will, for if we...

Everyone has a cross to carry. Elder Ephraim of Katounakia Every single person has a cross to carry. Why? Since the leader of our...

Do not resent. Do not react. Keep inner stillness. These three spiritual principles, or disciplines, are really a summation of the...

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 Is He near at hand, or remote and withdrawn?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

The Cup of Christ is the Cup of Joy. Temporal suffering has no importance in itself: we lend it significance because of our attachment to...

What's the point? Why this effort? Why the aggregating? The curating? The posting? Why publish Orthodox Wisdom for all who suffer?...

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...

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,...

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...

One such candle was Romanian priest Fr. George Calciu. He and his family lived quietly until the communist government renewed its...

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 Is He near at hand, or remote and withdrawn?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...

But suffering, as the crowning of a man bearing his cross, gives birth in his heart to great Divine joy. As a mother grieves during the...