Let it be understood that those who are not found living as He taught are not Christian- even though they profess with the lips the teaching of Christ.
Featured image: Wooden church of Kizhi Pogost, Novaya Vil’ya, Kareliya. Photo by Elena Rostunova.
(In this category are various sources from whom I have only one quote.)
Let it be understood that those who are not found living as He taught are not Christian- even though they profess with the lips the teaching of Christ.
Featured image: Wooden church of Kizhi Pogost, Novaya Vil’ya, Kareliya. Photo by Elena Rostunova.
Let us hymn and glorify God in trials. Let us not be beggars and only ask things from God like: give me this, give me that, why won’t you give it to me?
May our lips be used to glorify God. Let us not be sullen and self-absorbed. Let us say also Glory to Thee, oh God! We must never forget it. It should be always on our lips.
Simplicity in our lives and the practice of the Jesus prayer, is a knife against the enemy.
– Elder Christodoulos Katounakiotis
Featured image: Elder Christodoulos stands on the right, with a disciple. source
Do not say that you love God and seek His Kingdom, while you wake up in the morning, and you first remember your work and worries, and then thank God.
The cross is not merely a sort of beautiful spiritual meditation. It is also enduring suffering in order to stand against the sinful world.
Featured image: Side-chapel in the Dormition Cathedral in Moscow. Photographer Sergeĭ Mikhaĭlovich, 1911. Prokudin-Gorskiĭ Collection. Library of Congress
I will always carry my cross. And if I cannot carry it, at least I will drag it. Because I do not want to lose my cross. I want to find the mercy of Christ and His Salvation and Kingdom.
– Alexandros Papadiamantis (1851 – 1911)
Featured image: source
“I consider no other labor as difficult as prayer. When we are ready to pray, our spiritual enemies interfere. They understand it is only by making it difficult for us to pray that they can harm us. Other things will meet with success if we keep at it, but laboring at prayer is a war that will continue until we die.”
Featured image: From City Desert