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… — Theophan the Recluse Copy Share Image
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.… — Theophan the Recluse Copy Share Image
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
