No one knows about it while it’s lying in the drawer. No one cares. But if you purposely place it on a red hot glowing coal, it fills the...

Not in flowers and gold, not in silver and precious stones is found the value of the Cross, but in the wounds of the Lord and His Most...

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...

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...

O Lord, visit me in my suffering, and grant me grace and strength to bear this sickness with which I am afflicted, with Christian...

It is a great good to give oneself up to the will of God. Then the Lord alone is in the soul. No other thought can enter in, and the soul...

Set aside your wish to find peace on this earth pre-maturely in order to receive it in time. That is, upon our death. Put to death your...

Do not forget your goal, my child. Look into the heavens and see the beauty that awaits us. Elder Ephraim of Philotheou and Arizona What...

Within our culture of noise 24/7 - a paradox occurs. Counterintuitively what garners the most impact is not who is the loudest, or talks...

Eternity. One must inherit it. We need patience. No one is as dangerous to us as we ourselves, so remain a servant of God in the short...

Illness, then, is only evil in appearance. It can even constitute a blessing for man, in the sense that, if one uses it appropriately,...

Say, "My God, I leave my illness in Your holy Hands, and whenever You - Who love me so much - want to heal me, I will also want it then."...

No matter where one lives on earth, trials must be endured. There is no escape from difficulty, pain and suffering. However, our...

There is no one, who in the course of a lifetime, has not had to face some form of illness. It's not 'if' we get sick, but rather 'when'....

Which medicine brought about spiritual rebirth to the souls of men? Was it not the gigantic Cross of our Lord Jesus? If the Lord had...

In order to follow Christ, let us take up our cross. The taking up of our cross is called the willing pious submission to God’s judgment...

God did not come into the world to eradicate suffering. He did not come even to explain it. God came into the world to fill human...