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Empiricists and nominalists are right to affirm that realities matter more than words and concepts. But our perception of reality is distorted by the passions. To perceive reality as it is—and to express it in adequate words and concepts—we require asceticism and the…

“The Elder would say that the Church teaches the faithful to follow one of two roads: monasticism or marriage. He thought it was unnatural for someone not to follow one of the two. As they used to say in his day, "The ox that does not go in the yoke or out to pasture goes to the…

“In our times, even the laity need to deepen the Jesus Prayer, as it will become our only salvation—prayer into the heart; the heart is the root of all passions and there we must labor.

“Even though we may have been charitable to a hundred people, if there were others from whom we turned away when they asked for food and drink and we could have given it to them, we will be judged by Christ as having refused Him nourishment. For Christ, Whom we nourish in the…

“Salvation is therefore only in the Orthodox Church and not outside it, neither in any pseudo-church. The only true Church remains the Orthodox Church. The good deeds of the non-Orthodox can help them to know the Orthodox Truth, but they are not enough for salvation. Without a…

"After death, eternity follows. Every person at a certain moment will abandon his body on the earth and proceed with his soul to eternity, to the life that has no end. Man’s soul will remain without the body until the Second Coming of Christ, at which time the bodies of both the…

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From His Grace Bishop LUKE of Jordanville: jordanville.org/artificialinte…

Talks With Father Paisios: Chapter 1 youtube.com/watch?v=z-akuX…