“I saw that there was no tragedy in God. Tragedy is to be found solely in the fortunes of the man whose gaze has not gone beyond the confines of this earth.” Archimandrite Sophrony The context of the above quote…

“Most persons are indifferent towards their most sacred duties concerning their deceased parents, brothers and sisters, owing to their ignorance of the importance and necessity of the Church's holy memorial services… [those who pray them] are richly rewarded by God…

“For the divine scriptures are a treasury of all manner of medicines, so that whether it be needful to quench pride, to lull desire to sleep, to tread under foot the love of money, to despise pain, to inspire confidence,…

“I love to pray in God’s Church, especially in the sanctuary near the altar because then I change miraculously through God’s grace; during the prayers of repentance and moments of tender emotion my soul sheds its thorns and chains of…

“When you are a Bear of very little brain, and you think of things, you find sometimes that a thing which seemed thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking…