The Still Point

Of The Turning World

[voiceforjesus]

[dramoor]

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Stop listening to every dysfunctional thought. Tell your mind to align its thoughts with the Word of GOD and to dwell on what He says about you. You were made by a King. You are loved. You are of great worth.

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

The Cross of Jesus Christ is the only model you need of what love does in the face of wrong.

Love doesn’t call wrong right. Love doesn’t ignore wrong and hope it goes away. Love doesn’t turn its back on you because you are wrong. Love doesn’t mock you. Love doesn’t mean I turn the tables and work to make you hurt in the same way you have hurt me. Love doesn’t go passive and stay silent in the face of wrong.

No, loves moves toward you because you are wrong and need to be rescued from you. In moving toward you, love is willing to make sacrifices and endure hardships so that you may be made right again and be reconciled to God and others. God graces us with this kind of love so that we may be tools of this love in the lives of others. (Paul David Tripp)

[dramoor]

"There is no better way to teach a child Christianity than to live it truly and from the heart. You cannot teach what you do not live."

~St. Silouan the Athonite

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[dramoor]

[dramoor]

"I believe that when death closes our eyes we shall awaken to a light, of which our sunlight is but the shadow.”

~Arthur Schopenhauer

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[dailyeffectiveprayer]

God is with you, even on your hardest days. (Isaiah 66:31)

[dramoor]

"There is no need to make long prayers, but extend your hands and say, 'Lord, as you will and as you desire, lead me.' If the conflict is urgent within you, say, 'Lord, help.' He knows what is good for us, and He acts with mercy toward us."

~St. Macarius the Great

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[dramoor]

"God fashioned mankind out of His Love and He created man to love… so, we are created by Love, for Love."

~Fr. Ananias Koustenis

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[dramoor]

[dramoor]

"Completely have trust in God, leave everything in His hands, and believe that His love will act for your own benefit. Then God will take care of everything, because there is nothing He cannot do; everything is easy for Him. The difficult thing is for man to decide to humble himself and leave everything to God's providence and love."

~St. Paisios of Mt. Athos (Photo © dramoor 2017 La Sagrada Familia, Barcelona, Spain)

[dramoor]

"Let us hold resolutely to the hope we profess, for He who promised is faithful."

~Hebrews 10:23

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[dramoor]

"A vigilant monk [or any Orthodox Christian] is a fisher of thoughts who, in the quiet of the night, easily catches them. Let the name of Jesus be joined to every breath, and then you will know the value of stillness."

~St. John Climacus

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[orthodoxadventure]

O Lord, grant me to love Thee alone. Thou didst create me, Thou didst enlighten me through holy baptism, Thou forgivest my sins and sufferest me to partake of Thy most pure Body and Blood. Do Thou enable me at all times to dwell in Thee.

Saint Silouan the Athonite by Archimandrite Sophrony of Essex