Archimandrite John (Krestiankin)
Rating: 8,3|Votes: 3
C., every man has to choose his own life’s path. This is so that no one can hide behind another person’s back.
Rating: 10|Votes: 1
There is Someone who knows about all our troubles. Not one troubled thought of ours slips by Him. He knows that troubles cause suffering. That is why He always wants to help us. He promises to take all our troubles upon Himself. Could we have anything better? He wants to take away everything that weighs upon us. He wants to pave a pathway for us in those regions where we do not see any way out. He wants to change all the conditions that burden us. He wants to send us help.
Rating: 7,7|Votes: 3
The old Russian saying is not without wisdom: measure seven times and cut once. This is something that we have forgotten how to do.
Rating: 8|Votes: 4
Everything will be very simple and easy if you decide to do it unto God, for God’s sake, and to the glory of God. Everything in life and in the soul will immediately come together. Do not leave your job, live on your salary from the museum, and work at home for your soul. Do not accept gifts, and do not count on getting your only profit from payment for icons.
Rating: 6,6|Votes: 9
The path to humility is long and extremely painful, especially in these pride-engulfed times. What tact and love, and again patience, does the spiritual father need in order to finally see the fruit of his life’s efforts ripen in his spiritual children, in order not to let the spiritual child fall faint in expectation and hope?