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- ...every day we should stand in awe of Him, as He is with us, and do what is pleasing before Him. If we are unable…
- Even when your body does nothing, sin can be active in your mind. When your soul inwardly repulses the evil one's attack by means of…
- You should secretly give from what you have to those in need, so that you receive from God, Who sees in secret, a hundred times…
- The commemoration of Christ's saving Passion is at hand, and the new, great spiritual Passover, which is the reward for dispassion and the prelude of…
- Mary properly bore the name of Virgin, and possessed to the full all the attributes of purity. She was a virgin in both body and…
- If... we choose death rather than true life, God does not take away the power that He gave us. And not only does He not…
- The Light of the Lord's Transfiguration does not come into being or cease to be, nor is it circumscribed or perceptible to the senses, even…
- ... we can see both that love for God is begotten from the virtues and that virtues are born of love. For this reason the…
- Life of the soul is union with God, as life of the body is union with the soul. As the soul was separated from God…
- ... we grapple with this 'law of sin' (Rom. 8:2) and expel it from our body, establishing in its place the surveillance of the intellect.…
- ... the passion for popularity brings such injury upon those it masters that it shipwrecks faith itself. Our Lord confirms this when He says, 'How…
- Being delivered from bodily sins is not enough; we must also cleanse the inner energy which dwells in our soul. For out of our hearts…
- Prayer changes from entreaty to thanksgiving, and meditation on the divine truths of faith fills the heart with a sense of jubilation and unimpeachable hope.…
- Anyone who has fallen into fornication, adultery or any other such bodily impurity, should desist from this revolting filth and cleanse himself through confession, tears,…
- If from one burning lamp someone lights another, then another from that one, and so on in succession, he has light continuously. In the same…
- ...we are not without hope of salvation, nor is it at all the right time for us to despair. All our life is a season…
- ...reasonable natures have free will, and can turn to the good or the bad voluntarily by themselves. They either attach themselves to God's will, which…
- The disciples worshipped the most high Lord Who had come down from heaven, made the earth into heaven and gone up again whence He came,…
- If you put something fragrant on to burning coals, you motivate those who approach to come back again and to stay near, but if instead…
- Let no one out of laziness or continuous worldly occupations miss these holy Sunday gatherings, which God Himself handed down to us, lest he be…
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