“Whoever seeks eternal blessedness and desires it and strives to reach it will despise everything temporal, lest while seeking the temporal he be deprived of the eternal.” St. Tikhon of Zadonsk Challenging words like these are always difficult to read.…

“For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and wickedness of men who by their wickedness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to…

“You look into a mirror so that you may know what is in your face, whether there are any blemishes in it, and having seen the blemishes, you cleanse them. Let the pure life of Christ be a mirror to…

“A ploughman plows a field, does he not repeat this action again and again? How else would the field be tilled if he did not repeat this action from dawn to dusk, deepening furrow after furrow? A traveler goes along…

“The Lord combined melody with prophesy so that everyone would sing holy hymns with total diligence while they are being carried away by the smooth flow of verses. Nothing rouses or inspires the spirit, nothing releases it from the earth…