Forwarded from Ask About The Orthodox Faith (SamiTafesh)
☦️🕯️“If you see your neighbor in sin, don’t look only at this, but also think about what he has done or does that is good, and infrequently trying this in general, while not partially judging, you will find that he is better than you.”🕯️☦️
♰ St. Basil the Great ♰
♰ St. Basil the Great ♰
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Forwarded from Ask About The Orthodox Faith (SamiTafesh)
☦️🕯️"You must know, my child, that nothing happens without reason or by chance. Everything has its purpose. Not even a pine needle falls from a tree unless God wills it. Therefore, you should not worry about everything that happens to you.
Look! You worry about your wife, sometimes about your children. Yet they elevate you spiritually. If they were not there, you would not progress spiritually at all. That is how God wills it. But you are very sensitive, and your stomach and gut hurt from too much worry.
It is not good when someone is overly sensitive, like you, because excessive worry, as in your case, causes various bodily illnesses. And do you know that all mental illnesses are demons? If we confess, the Lord will give us strength.
If we have Christ within us...
Let us not be troubled by the end times, nor by the Antichrist and his signs. Because, know this: if we have Christ within us, the Antichrist can do us no harm—none at all."☦️
♰ St. Porphyrios of Kapsokalyvia♰
Look! You worry about your wife, sometimes about your children. Yet they elevate you spiritually. If they were not there, you would not progress spiritually at all. That is how God wills it. But you are very sensitive, and your stomach and gut hurt from too much worry.
It is not good when someone is overly sensitive, like you, because excessive worry, as in your case, causes various bodily illnesses. And do you know that all mental illnesses are demons? If we confess, the Lord will give us strength.
If we have Christ within us...
Let us not be troubled by the end times, nor by the Antichrist and his signs. Because, know this: if we have Christ within us, the Antichrist can do us no harm—none at all."☦️
♰ St. Porphyrios of Kapsokalyvia♰
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Forwarded from He Loves Mankind ☦️
“Love every man in spite of his sins. Never reject anyone, for in rejecting another, you reject Him who created him and loves him. Love all as yourself, and strive to show this love in deeds.”
+ St John of Kronstadt
+ St John of Kronstadt
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Proverbs 28:23
He that rebukes a man afterwards shall find more favor than he that flatters with the tongue.
He that rebukes a man afterwards shall find more favor than he that flatters with the tongue.
Forwarded from Orthodox Faith
The Church is a ship sailing to the harbor of salvation.
☦️St. Sophrony of Essex☦️
☦️St. Sophrony of Essex☦️
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Proverbs 28:24
Whoever robs his father or his mother, and says, It is no transgression; the same is the companion of a destroyer.
Whoever robs his father or his mother, and says, It is no transgression; the same is the companion of a destroyer.
Forwarded from Ask About The Orthodox Faith (Orthodox Christian)
Once a child was abandoned somewhere in the Russian province (rarely but that happens) and the stray cat Masha saved him! She got into the box where the baby was laying in the frost, warming him and meowing to draw attention of passers-by. She succeeded and has become famous.
Animals often amaze us. Sometimes they put us, who have intellect and the commandments, to shame.
Animals often amaze us. Sometimes they put us, who have intellect and the commandments, to shame.
Forwarded from Ask About The Orthodox Faith (SamiTafesh)
☦️🕯️God is nearer to us than any man at every time. He is nearer to me than my raiment, nearer than the air or light."🕯️☦️
♰ St. John of Kronstadt ♰
♰ St. John of Kronstadt ♰
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Forwarded from Ask About The Orthodox Faith (SamiTafesh)
☦️🕯️So, morning or evening, immediately before you begin to repeat your prayers, stand awhile, sit for awhile, or walk a little and try to steady your mind and turn it away from all worldly activities and objects. After this, think who He is to whom you turn in prayer, then recollect who you are; who it is who is about to start this invocation to Him in prayer. Do this in such a way as to waken in your heart a feeling of humility and reverent awe that you are standing in the presence of God.☦️
♰ St. Theophan the Recluse ♰
♰ St. Theophan the Recluse ♰
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Forwarded from Ask About The Orthodox Faith (priest Stanislav)
Do not be surprised when you try to live in a right way spiritually and start to feel demonic attacks even more (it can be anything, for example, fights in family or sleepness, or anger, etc) . Just beware no to fall into temptation.
“A good deed, such as heartfelt prayer, or especially Holy Communion, will not pass without the devil taking revenge. He uses all his might to prevent fruitful prayer and/or communion. If unable to achieve this, he then tries to spoil everything after the fact, so that not a trace of the benefit acquired remains.”
Abbot Nikon Vorobiev
“A good deed, such as heartfelt prayer, or especially Holy Communion, will not pass without the devil taking revenge. He uses all his might to prevent fruitful prayer and/or communion. If unable to achieve this, he then tries to spoil everything after the fact, so that not a trace of the benefit acquired remains.”
Abbot Nikon Vorobiev
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Proverbs 28:25
He that is of a proud heart stirs up strife: but he that puts his trust in the LORD shall be made fat.
He that is of a proud heart stirs up strife: but he that puts his trust in the LORD shall be made fat.
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Proverbs 28:26
He that trusts in his own heart is a fool: but whoever walks wisely, he shall be delivered.
He that trusts in his own heart is a fool: but whoever walks wisely, he shall be delivered.
Forwarded from Ask About The Orthodox Faith (SamiTafesh)
☦️🕯️The demons attack the person who has attained the summits of prayer in order to prevent his conceptual images of sensible things from being free from passion; they attack the gnostic so that he will dally with impassioned thoughts; and they attack the person who has not advanced beyond the practice of the virtues so as to persuade him to sin through his actions. They contend with all men by every possible means in order to separate them from God.🕯️☦️
♰ St. Maximos the Confessor ♰
♰ St. Maximos the Confessor ♰
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Proverbs 28:27
He that gives to the poor shall not lack: but he that hides his eyes shall have many a curse.
He that gives to the poor shall not lack: but he that hides his eyes shall have many a curse.
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Forwarded from Ask About The Orthodox Faith (Orthodox Christian)
1) Roman Catholicism insulted the Holy Spirit, denigrating Him with 'filioque', and the Holy Spirit left that denomination. RCC has no grace, and all honest RC and ex-RC admit the fact that they don't feel presence of the Holy Spirit in their temples.
2) RCC is in a conflict with the Scripture with its papism, distorted idea about proceeding of the Holy Spirit, immaculate conception and other heresies.
3) Roman Catholicism has deteriorated to the point of being indistinguishable from its child, Protestantism, they lost the major part of the Holy Tradition. 13th century Catholic would burn modern "Catholics" as heretics if he met them.
Inquirers ask about that from time to time.
2) RCC is in a conflict with the Scripture with its papism, distorted idea about proceeding of the Holy Spirit, immaculate conception and other heresies.
3) Roman Catholicism has deteriorated to the point of being indistinguishable from its child, Protestantism, they lost the major part of the Holy Tradition. 13th century Catholic would burn modern "Catholics" as heretics if he met them.
Inquirers ask about that from time to time.