“Just as strokes of soot would ruin a perfect and extraordinarily beautiful portrait, so too inordinate appetites defile and dirty … More
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“The cruelest paradox of life is that inordinate pursuit of happiness leads to misery.” – Marc Foley, The Ascent of … More
“One becomes attached to the fruits of one’s intelligence as a mother to her child.” – Archimandrite Sophrony
“Whatever the means he employs, the proud man will never attain to genuine union with God.” – Archimandrite Sophrony
“Good not attained by good means is not good.” – Archimandrite Sophrony
“For I see that you are in the gall of bitterness and the chains of wickedness.” – Acts 8:23 What … More
“I’m not a magician. I’m not a prophet. I don’t say that I saw the Mother of God, or that … More
“Our sorrows…are the fruit of a way of life and our long years of voluntary, internal consent to evil desires. … More
“Somebody who is Christ’s, must love Christ, and when he loves Christ he is delivered from the devil, from hell … More
“People generally seek freedom in order to do what they like. But that is not freedom but the power of … More
