-If we keep remembering the wrongs which men have done us, we destroy the power of the remembrance of God. But if we remind ourselves of the evil deeds of the demons, we shall be invulnerable.- Abba Macarius the Great

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The man who obeys is in essence a man of faith. Christ is named in the Book of Revelation: ‘the faithful witness’. Likewise, the man who imitates Christ in obedience receives the Spirit of Christ and attains in this way to continuous prayer and stability of life.

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For our Lord came for this reason, that He might change and transform and renew and recreate the soul which had been overturned by the passions…mingling with it His own Spirit of divinity… to make new men, anointing them which His own light of knowledge, that He might put in them the new wine which is His Spirit

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“Gratitude is a virtue which pleases God more than all the other virtues. In response to it, He provides us with all things which we are unable to reach or obtain on our own. God allots His gifts to us according to the measure of gratitude that we show Him. Only those gifts for which we have given thanks to God become truly ours.” Elder Zacharias

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Our mistake is that we expect those around us, that is, sick and fallen creatures, to fulfil our innate need for love, which is something that only God can truly satisfy. We are deceived when we expect to receive from men something that God alone can give us. He instilled in us the desire for love, and He alone can satisfy it. We will know Him through love and become like Him through love.

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The more we’ve prepared, the more room we’ve made, the more we’ve suffered, the more we’ve loved, the more we’ve cried aloud- wept and lamented without restraint- the more we’ll have received God Himself. Needless to say, all of this remains hidden beneath a cheerful countenance, beneath a smile, beneath the depths of true joy, beneath an entire life that witnesses to God by its tranquility, love and truth, because we know that, no matter what happens, God for us is everything,

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Just as the root of the vine ministers and distributes to the branches the enjoyment of its own natural and inherent qualities, so the Only-begotten Word of God imparts to the Saints, as it were, an affinity to His own nature which is that of God the Father, by giving them the Spirit...

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To speak in the name of Christ means to speak from within the truth that Christ is. It is not to speak from within some theoretical truth or particular point of view, even if doctrinal. Rather, it is to speak from a profound relationship with the Lord Christ, who is the truth, so that our words will convey not only their semantic meaning but become life to those who receive them

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“I advise you this: let the scale of mercy always be prevalent within you, until you perceive in yourself that mercy which God has for the world. Let this our state become a mirror where we may see in ourselves that likeness and true image which naturally belong to the Divine Essence. By these things and their like we are enlightened so as to be moved toward God with a transparent understanding…” Mar Isaac the Syrian

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“Silence is the sacrament of the world to come.”St. Isaac the Syrian

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“Concentrate on this name of our Lord Jesus Christ with a contrite heart, the words welling up from your lips and drawing you to them. And do not depict him with an image in your mind but concentrate on calling to him: ‘Our Lord Jesus, have mercy on me.’ Do these things in peace and you will see the peace of his divinity within you; he will run off the darkness of the passions that dwell within you and he will purify the inner person (2 Cor 4:16, Eph 3:16) just as Adam was pure in paradise. This is the blessed name that John the Evangelist pronounced: ‘Light of the world and unending sweetness, the food of life and the true food’” (Jn 6:48, 6:55, 8:12).

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Abba Anthony said, "I saw the snares that the enemy spreads out over the world and I said groaning, "What can get through from such snares?" Then I heard a voice saying to me, 'Humility.'"

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When a man lives deeply in these transcendent truths, they nourish and satisfy his soul and cause him to live beyond the normal bounds of his existence. He becomes aware of an Existence above all other existent things—beyond the sun, the moon, the earth; beyond life and death itself. This is the apex of spirituality: that a person enter a state of being beyond his mere temporal life. - Fr Matthew the Poor

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 Despondency  is  a  slackness  of  soul,  a  weakening  of  the  mind,  neglect  of  asceticism,  hatred  of  the  vow made. It is  the blessing of worldlings. It accuses God of being merciless and without love for men. It  is  being  languid  in  singing  psalms,  weak  in  prayer, stubbornly  bent  on  service,  resolute  in  manual  labour, indifferent in obedience

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For the heart directs and governs all the other organs of the body. And when grace pastures the heart, it rules over all the members and the thoughts. This is so because the heart is the place where the mind and thoughts are found.- St Macarius the Great

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We must also know, beloved brethren, that every secret converse, every good care o f the intellect directed toward God and every meditation upon spir­ itual things is delimited by prayer, is called by the name o f prayer, and under its name is comprehended; whether you speak o f various readings, or the cries of a mouth glorifying God, or sorrowing reflection on the Lord, or making bows with the body, or psalmody in verses, or all the other things from which the teaching of genuine prayer ensues. From genuine prayer the love of God is born, for love comes of prayer.

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Those upon whom you shed a ray of your love could no longer bear to live among people. In search of their Beloved, they renounced every physical love, becoming foreigners to all. They gave up all the pleasures of this life, seeking the way of their Beloved in tears. They felt unworthy of his beauty; finding themselves on this blessed quest, they wept ...

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My child, you will not have to evoke My presence painfully. I shall be faithful to the appointment which I have made with you. I shall do more than wait for you in this Galilee of memories. Now I go before you, I shall lead you there. When your heart is once again fixed on Galilee, the One who is guiding you will make Himself known to you, and He will speak to you...

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“This is how you pray continually- not by offering prayer in words, but by joining yourself to God through your whole way of life, so that your life becomes one continuous and uninterrupted prayer.” - St Basil the Great

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Eucharist (thanksgiving) is the state of perfect man. Eucharist is the life of paradise. Eucharist is the only full and real response of man to God’s creation, redemption and gift of heaven. But this perfect man who stands before God is Christ. In Him alone all that God has given man was fulfilled and brought back to heaven. He alone is the perfect Eucharistic Being. He is the Eucharist of the world. In and through this Eucharist the whole creation becomes what it always was to be and yet failed to be.- Fr Alexander Schmemann

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