Until you have suffered much in your heart, you cannot learn humility.
Thaddeus of VitovnicaTags: inspirational christianity humility suffering spirituality eastern-orthodoxy
Humility is a Divine property and the perfection of the Christian life. It is attained through obedience. He who is not obedient cannot gain humility. There are very few in the world today who have obedience. Our humility is in proportion to our obedience.
Thaddeus of VitovnicaTags: christianity humility obedience eastern-orthodoxy
Righteousness acts never in its own interest, but in the interest of fellow men.
Thaddeus of VitovnicaTags: christianity righteousness eastern-orthodoxy
When we talk to our fellow men and they tell us about their troubles, we will listen to them carefully if we have love for them. We will have compassion for their suffering and pain, for we are God's creatures; we are a manifestation of the love of God.
Thaddeus of VitovnicaTags: love compassion christianity spirituality god-s-love eastern-orthodoxy council
Joy is thankfulness, and when we are joyful, that is the best expression of thanks we can offer the Lord, Who delivers us from sorrow and sin.
Thaddeus of VitovnicaTags: christianity joy spirituality thankfulness eastern-orthodoxy joyfulness
We need repentance. You see, repentance is not only going to a priest and confessing. We must free ourselves from the obsession of thoughts. We fall many times during our life, and it is absolutely necessary to reveal everything [in Confession] to a priest who is a witness to our repentance.
Repentance is the renewal of life. This means we must free ourselves from all our negative traits and turn toward absolute good. No sin is unforgivable except the sin of unrepentance.
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If you will have patience in difficulties you know the Holy Spirit is within you, if you will also have the strength to be thankful in troubles than is when the Holy Spirit shines through you.
Arsenie BocaTags: inspirational spirituality holy-spirit eastern-orthodoxy
God’s love for the biggest sinner is greater than the love of the holiest man for God
Arsenie BocaTags: inspirational saints spirituality eastern-orthodoxy
The East is unfamiliar with those confessions, memoirs, and autobiographies so beloved in the West. There is a clear difference in tonality. One's gaze never lingers on the suffering humanity of Christ, but penetrates behind the kenotic veil. To the West's mysticism of the Cross and its veneration of the Sacred Heart corresponds the eastern mysticism of the sealed tomb, from which eternal life eternal wells up.
Paul EvdokimovTags: life eternal-life christ orthodox orthodoxy resurrection eastern-orthodoxy
The ascetic remembrance of death is opposed to akedia, to anxiety, to depression, and becomes a powerful reminder of eternity, its joyful nostalgia.
Paul EvdokimovTags: eternity prayer resurrection eastern-orthodoxy asceticism evdokimov life-vs-death
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