The chief end of our life is to live in communion with God. To this end the Son of God became incarnate, in order to return us to this divine communion, which was lost by the fall into sin. Through… — Theophan the Recluse Copy Share Image
Examine yourself to see whether you have within you a strong sense of your own self importance, or negatively, whether you have failed to realize that you are nothing. This feeling of self-importance is deeply hidden, but it controls the… — Theophan the Recluse Copy Share Image
The chief evil with relation to the body is love for the body and pitying it. This takes away all the soul's authority over the body and makes the soul the slave of the body. And on the contrary, one who does not spare the body will not be disturbed in whatever he does by apprehensions born of blind love… — Theophan the Recluse Copy Share
The chief end of our life is to live in communion with God. To this end the Son of God became incarnate, in order… — Theophan the Recluse Copy Share Image
Do this and you will be an apostle, a fulfiller of what the Lord chose you for, an accomplisher of your calling as messenger. When at first you succeed in all this, then perhaps the Lord will appoint you as a special ambassador-to save others after you have saved yourself; and to help those who are tempted, after you yourself… — Theophan the Recluse Copy Share
To pray is to descend with the mind into the heart, and there to stand before the face of the Lord, ever-present, all seeing,… — Theophan the Recluse Copy Share Image
"Love covers a multitude of sins," (I Pet. 4:8). That is, for love towards one's neighbor, God forgives the sins of the one who loves. — Theophan the Recluse Copy Share Image
As it is not possible to walk without feet or fly without wings, so it is impossible to attain the Kingdom of Heaven without… — Theophan the Recluse Copy Share Image
If you examine your life well, you will find many instances when God showed His unmistakable mercy to you. Trouble was brewing, but it… — Theophan the Recluse Copy Share Image
If you want to attain salvation, learn and keep in your heart all that the holy Church teaches and, receiving heavenly power from the… — Theophan the Recluse Copy Share Image
The Lord chose the apostles, that they should be with Him, and that he might send them forth to preach, and to have power… — Theophan the Recluse Copy Share Image
Remember that each of us has his own cross. The Golgotha of this cross is our heart: it is being lifted or implanted through… — Theophan the Recluse Copy Share Image
But your job is to work upon yourself: for this you are chosen; the rest is in the hands of God. He who humbles… — Theophan the Recluse Copy Share Image
