Category: Contemplations

“This kind can come out by nothing but prayer and fasting.” Mark 9:29 . “As healthy eyes naturally aspire to light, so the soul of the person observing a reasonable fast, naturally aspires to prayer. When you will fast then your mind will aspire and wish to converse with God.” St Isaac the Syrian

“For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” Matthew 6:21 . “Lift up and stretch out your hands, not to heaven, but to the poor; for if you stretch forth your hands to the poor, you have reached the summit of heaven; but if you lift up your hands in prayer without …

“But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven” Matthew 5:44,45 . “Prayer does not profit us for the friend’s sake as much …

“For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.” – Luke 11:10 . “He would not have empowered us to ask Him in this way if He had not wished to give us… For he wishes to give us more than we ask for” – …