Remember that each of us has his own cross. The Golgotha of this cross is our heart: it is being lifted or implanted through a zealous determination …

- Theophan The Recluse

The chief evil with relation to the body is love for the body and pitying it. This takes away all the soul's authority over the body and makes the so…

- Theophan The Recluse

Do this and you will be an apostle, a fulfiller of what the Lord chose you for, an accomplisher of your calling as messenger. When at first you succe…

- Theophan The Recluse

The object of our serch is the fire of grace which enters into the heart.

- Theophan The Recluse

To pray is to descend with the mind into the heart, and there to stand before the face of the Lord, ever-present, all seeing, within you.

- Theophan The Recluse

If you want to attain salvation, learn and keep in your heart all that the holy Church teaches and, receiving heavenly power from the mysteries of th…

- Theophan The Recluse

If you examine your life well, you will find many instances when God showed His unmistakable mercy to you. Trouble was brewing, but it passed you by …

- Theophan The Recluse

Every Christian has the power to heal infirmities-not of others, but his own, and not of the body, but of the soul-that is, sins and sinful habits-an…

- Theophan The Recluse

As it is not possible to walk without feet or fly without wings, so it is impossible to attain the Kingdom of Heaven without the fulfillment of the c…

- Theophan The Recluse