Ορθοδοξία

Here’s a mystery: in His omnipotence and His omniscience, He knows everything, including what’s going to happen in the future, but He’s not the cause of any evil. God has precognition, but doesn’t preordain.

Saint Porphyrios of Kavsokalyvia

By applying divine commands and keeping faith in the divine will we will gain divine promises, namely adoption and therefore apathy.

Elder Josef of Vatopaidi

Don’t be troubled in sorrows and temptations, but, with the love of Jesus, lighten your mood and your listlessness.

Elder Iosif the Hesychast

Egotism is an absurd passion and is literally a scourge of the human race; we all suffer from this great sickness. Egotism makes fools and a spectacle of those who suffer from it. God calls upon us to struggle against this egotism and defeat it, to make ourselves free of it.

Elder Ephraim of Arizona

Christ is everything.

Saint Porphyrios of Kavsokalyvia

For a man to have fruits is not a matter of fasting, it is a matter of heart. Fruit is not a matter of applying a mandate but it is a matter of heart. Because all the commandments and all the rules of God are servants of the heart: Heat, clean, shine, water, protect, wean, put seed in the heart to capture, grow and mature the fruit in the field of the heart. Even all the good actions that man does are the medium and not the fruit ...

Saint Nicolas Velimirovich

Our God has secured for us estates up in heavens. But when we ask to free us from a trial, he gives these estates to others and we lose them. While, if we are patient, He will also give us interest.

Saint Paisios of Mount Athos

Three things are needful: to keep our mind in heaven; our heart as the throne of God; and our mouth as the Church.

Abbess Makrina, Holy Monastery of Our Lady the Guide, Portaria

If you wish to be governed by God, don’t wish to sin. Because if you sin, how will you be governed by God?

Saint John of Damascus

Let us contemplate God as He is, not as our mind wants Him to be.

Saint Isaac the Syrian