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[TheOrthodoxWay @_theorthodoxway]

“Our thoughts determine our lives.”
- Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica

[Basilica.ro (EN) @BasilicaNews]

💬Our goal should not be to do many things and be in constant anxiety. This is a demonic condition. What is done with calmness and prayer is blessed, and it also blesses the people who use it.

[Prekarios Styletes ☦️📿 @prekariosstylet]

If men only knew the Lord’s love for us they would surrender heart and soul to His holy will, and live peacefully in God, like children of a king. A king has manifold concerns: his kingdom, his family, his son, his children; but the son lives carefree in the palace, with servants to wait upon him, taking no thought and enjoying all things. Thus is it with the man who has submitted himself to God’s will — he lives at peace, content with his lot though he be ill, poor, persecuted. He is at peace because the grace of the Holy Spirit is with him, and the delights of the Holy Spirit solace him, and his only sorrow is that he has so grieved his beloved Lord.

St Silouan the Athonite

[Greek Orthodoxy @RomanOrthodoxy]

1 Corinthians 3:18-23

Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, "He catches the wise in their own craftiness;" and again, "The LORD knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile." Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours: whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas, or the world or life or death, or things present or things to come-all are yours. And you are Christ's, and Christ is God's.

[TheOrthodoxWay @_theorthodoxway]

“When our thoughts are at peace, our body rests too.”
- Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica

[Father George Despodov @GeorgeDespodov]

"When people are empty of Christ, a thousand and one other things come and fill them up: jealousies, hatreds, boredom, melancholy, resentment, a worldly outlook, worldly pleasures. Try to fill your soul with  Christ so that it’s not empty." - St. Porphyrios