Victors over evil. It is one's personal effort to eradicate evil and to implant good that the essence of Christian struggle or...

1. interjection: used to express grief, regret or distress 1. noun: a condition of deep suffering from misfortune, affliction, or grief...

There is no greater evil than egotism. It gives birth to all temptations and troubles, and woe to whomever it entangles - it will deform...

Among all the attitudes recommended by the Fathers in times of illness, patience and thanksgiving come first. St. John of Gaza goes so...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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