The testimony of the Lord is trustworthy because the Lord bears witness to nothing other than Himself and the inner principles of His creation (Jn 5:30-32). Whatever God tells us is trustworthy, whatever He promises will come to pass. God’s testimony is so reliable, He grants wisdom even to children, since it confirms them in their faith and belief.
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Elder Aemilianos of Simonopetra
We love Him because He first loved us. (1 John 4:19)
In the end, this is not the agony of man trying to find God, but the agony of God trying to find man; it is the pain of God running in love to those that abandoned Him, that were cut off from Him, that forgot about Him, that despised and rejected Him.
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Until the lost shall be found, until the finite be united with the Infinite, God will be in agony
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Elder Aemilianos of Simonopetra
We must not look for people’s consolation,
but for God’s
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Saint Paisios of Mount Athos
The eternity of God stands in stark contrast to the fleeting nature of human existence. Human life is of limited duration, but the mercy of the Lord is from age to age.
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God’s love is eternal because God is eternal, and God is love.
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Elder Aemilianos of Simonopetra
You can deny God, but you can not hide from him. If you fail to see the glory of God, it is not because God refuses to reveal Himself to you, but because you are unwilling to receive His warmth and light.
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You fail to see because you fail to look. But though you close your eyes to God, His light continues to shine on you.
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Elder Aemilianos of Simonopetra
That the Lord’s teaching converts souls means that it has the power to transform life itself,
for the soul is the principal of life within us.
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Thus it was by his words alone Christ gave sight to the blind, raised paralytics up from their beds (Matthew 9:5 & John 5:8),
and commanded a dead man to rise from his tomb (Jn 11:39-44).
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In this way, the power of conversion ascribed to the law of God includes the power of raising fallen man from the dead,
restoring him to life, physically and spiritually, for it is the power of God Himself
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Elder Aemilianos of Simonopetra
Psalms and the Life of Faith
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