Daily Spiritual Messages

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Let’s not pray hypocritically. However lazy and weak our flesh is, however drowsy you feel, you have to master yourself. Don’t feel sorry for your body, humble it for God. The gift of prayer that you offer God should be perfect. Give your heart to God.

Saint John of Kronstadt

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Those who don’t know themselves, don’t know God either. Those who don’t know God, don’t know the truth and live unbearable lives full of sorrow and bitterness and they always sinning against God.

Saint Nectarios of Pentapolis

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According to divine revelation, all things are the result of a cause, they can’t exist by themselves but only by ‘partaking’ in God’s energy and providence. If therefore, they’re cut off from the cohesive power and energy of God, they crumble and become moribund.

Elder Joseph of Vatopaidi

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n this earthly life, we have to store up oil, that is perform works of charity, which will be of use to us in the next life. The more the obstacles, the greater will be the triumph of virtue.

Saint John Chrysostom

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If you want to pray properly, don’t sadden anybody. Otherwise you’re praying in vain. Whatever you’ve done against someone else, who’s wronged you, will come back to haunt you at the time of prayer.

Saint Nilos the Ascetic

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Humble yourself and confess from now on, because confession involves holy humility, without which nobody can be saved.

Elder Ephraim of Arizona

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When the soul loses humility, it also loses grace and the love for God, and then fervent prayer is extinguished.

Saint Silouan the Athonite

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There’s honestly nothing worse, more harmful, as I’ve said often enough, than judging others or despising your neighbour. We’d be better off judging ourselves and our faults, which we know full well and concerning which we’ll have to answer to God.

Abba Dorotheos

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Thanks for all these Orthodox Quotes! Very beautiful!

[Νίκος]

Don’t try to learn about the sly and wicked things that people do, because then your soul’s transformed by what you hear.

Saint Mark the Ascetic