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Five Quotes From Elder Sophrony

February 5, 2016 · 2 minute read · Tags: Converts , Discipline , Elder Sophrony , Love , Marriage , Modern Elders

Discipline imposed by others does not help in repentance and does not help the soul to develop and become a person. Discipline is not the same as self-discipline, and obedience is different again. Those monasteries in teh West that began with discipline have collapsed.
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The Holy Mountain's Secret Cry

February 4, 2016 · 1 minute read · Tags: Athos , Met. Hierotheos , Modern Elders

Video: Hierotheos Vlachos: freedom is won by overcoming our self-love
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If God doesn't help

February 3, 2016 · 2 minute read · Tags: Elder Symeon Kragiopoulos , Modern Elders , Spiritual Wisdom

However, it’s at this very moment that he can, with even more hope, say to God: ‘My God, not only am I begging you to intervene, but I believe that this is my only hope. And so you’ll do this, my God, since apart from this there’s no salvation for me’.
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St. Silouan

February 2, 2016 · 1 minute read · Tags: Modern Elders , Mt. Athos , Saints , St. Silouan

The most precious thing in the world is to know God and understand His will, even if dimly: Blog of Father Athanasius Kone on the Orthodox Church from Greece and Hawaii
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The Elders expose the nature of the vices

February 2, 2016 · 1 minute read · Tags: Fr. Seraphim Rose , Modern Elders , Quotes

Fr. Seraphim Rose: quotes
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