Prayer is a great gift to man. Whoever cultivates prayer will delight in it and will sense the fragrant blossoms, the sweetness and the honey of Grace. He will be worthy union with God, of becoming one with God, of having theosis in the soul, of becoming god by Grace.
The Grace of God, that comes with the sweetest name of Jesus, softens the soul. The world could be upside down, and inside a person there is meekness, self control, peace and a spiritual state of great delight.
when thoughts and our problems choke us and we are oppressed by everything, we should say to ourselves, “Come here, let’s go on a little walk. I’ll show you around Paradise. Come and see the magnificence of God!”
Do you know what you are going to be deprived of if you don’t bring your mind to the magnificence of God?
You will be deprived of seeing the angels! You see that the holy angels have order, and they each have different garments. Some angels’ wings are gold; other angels have wings of light – some green, some blue, others are red- all different. Man’s eye can not get enough of the magnificence of the wings of the angels in Heaven!
What is going on in Heaven is unspeakable! Oh how the devil keeps us occupied with all the earthly things here, and he deprives us of the splendor of Heaven.”
The compassion of God is like the ocean, like the heavens. God does not say, “why did you sin?” but instead, “why didn’t you get up?” He forgives us for everything: it is enough that we repent as soon as we understand we have made a mistake. Are we not human? We fall. However, we must get up. Christ loves us so much!”
When a person has God in his soul he is careful not to speak ill of anyone, not to sadden anyone. This is the Grace of God. It stays with you, it protects you so you don’t sadden your brother, so you don’t embitter him, treat him badly, or speak unkindly to him. The Grace of God does all this. It sweetens the soul, making it delicate as air, filling it with kindness, good manners, and good behavior.
Every day, as we awake – starting from today – we need to make a new beginning to do what must be done, to do that which avid desires. Every time we fall, we will get up, we will fall again and we will get up again. Let us not lose our hope and our faith in God.
“Just as we regularly eat in order to maintain the body so the soul should constantly be filled with prayer. The one who prays feels divine blessedness and has the help of God. If we had something previous and we lost it we would turn over the whole world to find it. This is how we must pursue the name of God.”
“Every rest is followed by hardship, and every hardship endured for God is followed by rest.”
The good man’s soul shines more brightly than the sun and is gladdened at every moment by the theory of divine mysteries. He who follows a lover of God will be enriched by God’s mysteries…
From long suffering in prayer, the fruit of life arises, and expectation is a firm helper during prayer to those who posses it. When you pray, bring to mind the ploughman who sows in hope. He Who causes to return twofold the seed that the plougjman sows with hope.
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