Daily Spiritual Messages

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Lots of people today go chasing after joy, happiness, and go down roads that aren’t clean, but are befouled by the actions of demons. But if ‘the Lord God speaks’ in our heart, then we should be quiet. We should turn to our heart, learn to pray the Jesus prayer, cleanse our heart with introversion, and then, without wishing for it, without seeking it, we’ll be a ‘city built on a hill’.

Elder Joseph of Vatopaidi

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If we’re possessed of a vainglorious, contemptuous attitude and have been blinded by pride, then, inevitably, we fall into the same sin as the devil.

Saint Basil the Great

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When you or somebody else have a problem, ask others to pray with you and beg God all together in faith and love. Be sure that God pleases in these prayers and intervenes by doing miracles.

Saint Porphyrios Kafsokalivitis

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Even though the saints sinned, they had the strength to arise, simply and robustly. If they sinned, they repented, from the depth of their heart until the day they died, but weren’t depressed and despondent. We, on the other hand, if we have a sin, begin with the ‘whys’: ‘Why do I do it? Why do I think it? Why did I act like that?’ As if it were a wonder that we would sin. Why wouldn’t you do it? Who do you think you are? Somebody so important, so infallible that you’d never fail, never commit a sin?

Metropolitan Athanasios of Lemessos

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Some people think that prayer is yoga, that it’s meditation, a technique. That’s wrong. Prayer’s a spontaneous appeal from the human heart to God.

Elder Efraim Vatopaidinos

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Today, too, people can be true Christians only if, on a daily basis, they’re guided by God’s saints.

Saint Justin Popovich

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They’ve not read, not heard, that those who distance themselves from God are lost. If a nation wants to recover itself, it has to be reborn morally, cut out decadence and the paralysis of morality, cease from being immoral and sinful, stop injustice, greed, impiety and blasphemy.

Saint Nectarios of Pentapolis

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The greatest sin today is that people are wallowing in despair and don’t believe in the Resurrection.

Elder Sophrony of Essex

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It’s no business of mine who God puts into Paradise. It’s His and He can do what He wants. I’ve got no say in it. I want to be saved, and the rest is up to the Lord.

Elder Epifanios Theodoropoulos

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Every good thing comes from God. There’s not a single good thought that isn’t from God, nor wicked one that isn’t from the devil. Anything good you conceive, say or do, they’re all God’s gift. ‘Every perfect gift comes down from above’. It’s all a gift from God; we’ve got nothing of our own.

Elder Iosif the Hesychast